I'm Madoda Ndlakuse

UMadoda Ndlakuse uzalelwe kwilokishi yaseMdantsane ebutsheni beminyaka yoo1980. Ukhulele eBhayi kwilokishi yaseZwide naseNew Brighton njengokuba ngoku engumhlali waseMotherwell. NguNobalisa,umququzeleli wamaphulo okufundisa,umongi wolwimi lwenkobe nombhali osele echolachole amawonga aliqela ngenxa yomsebenzi wakhe okudidi oluphezulu.Ziliqela iincwadi azikhuphileyo ibe enye yazo iye yamzuzela iwonga le Nadine Gordimer yamabali amafutshane kwiSouth African Literary Award ngo2021. Ngo2022 uzuze imbasa ezimbini eqala ngePanSALB Multilingualism Award kwisiXhosa waza wafumana imbasa yeLitasa ebizwa Significant Contribution to Literacy Award.

Madoda Ndlakuse was born in Mdantsane township in the early 1980s. He grew up in Port Elizabeth in the townships of Zwide and New Brighton and he is now a resident of Motherwell. He is Nobalisa, an organiser of educational initiatives, an indigenous language preserver and a writer who has already received several awards for his high-quality work. He has published several books and one of them won him the Nadine Gordimer Award for short stories at the South African Literary Awards in 2021. In 2022 he won two awards, starting with the PanSALB Multilingualism Award in Xhosa and also received the Litasa Significant Contribution to Literacy Award.