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Photo Seated: Mr Robert Kriger (independent analyst); H.E. Norio Maruyama (Ambassador of Japan to South Africa); Mr Taras kuzmych (Ambassador of Ukraine to South Africa), Ms Liubov Abravitova (Chargé d’affaire of Ukraine to South Africa); Prof Lesiba Teffo (Unisa)
7.2.3. Unisa Library celebrates Black women poets
The annual Women’s Day celebrated on the 9th of August 2019 give the country an opportunity to highlight achievements and signi cant contributions made by women in different walks of life. The Unisa Library and the Unisa Institute for Gender Studies collaborated with the University of KwaZulu-Natal Press (UKZN Press), to launch a book titled Our Words, Our Worlds: Writing on Black South African Women Poets, 2000-2018 – edited by poet, essayist, short-story writer and activist, Ms Makhosazana Xaba.
Photo: From left Prof Nokuthula Mazibuko, head of the Unisa institute of Gender Studies; Tereska Muishond, Poet; Myesha Jenkins, Poet; Dr Daisy Selematsela, Executive Director: Unisa Library and Information Services; Makhosazana Xaba, poet and editor; and Phillippa Yaa de Villiers, Poet
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