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# Mandla Langa

(1950)   Poet

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Mandla Langa is a poet.

## Quick Facts About Mandla Langa

Born January 1, 1950

Profession Poet

## About Mandla Langa

South African writer... \| Mandla Langa is a South African poet, short-story writer, novelist, and cultural activist. He grew up in the KwaMashu township of Kwazulu Natal. His novel The Lost Colours of the Chameleon won the 2009 Commonwealth Writers' Prize .
Langa enrolled for a degree in English and Philosophy at the Univers

##  Quotes by Mandla Langa

> [“I have learned that people at the bottom use others' bodies to climb to the top”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mandla-langa/i-have-learned-that-people-at-the-bottom-use-others-bodies-to-climb/)

Mandla Langa

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