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Magona, Sindiwe

LC control no.nr 91011716
Descriptive conventionsrda
LC classificationPR9369.3.M335
Personal name headingMagona, Sindiwe
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Associated placeGuguletu (Cape Town, South Africa) New York (N.Y.) Cape Town (South Africa)
Birth date1943-08-27
Place of birthUmtata (South Africa)
AffiliationUnited Nations
Profession or occupationAuthors
Found inHer To my children's children, 1990: t.p. (Sindiwe Magona)
Mother to mother, 2015: title page (Sindiwe Magona) page 4 of cover (born in a village in the Eastern Cape and grew up in Gugulethu. She has worked as a domestic worker, a hawker, a primary school teacher, a secondary school teacher, a writer, a motivational speaker and an Information Officer at the United Nations in New York; author of more than a hundred books)
Kwela WWW site, July 15, 2016 Authors (Sindiwe Magona was born in Umtata on 27 August 1943 and grew up in Gugulethu on the Cape Flats. She finished high school through a correspondence course, followed by a BA Degree from the University of South Africa. In 1981 she embarked on a Masters' Degree in Social Work at Columbia University in New York. On completion, she successfully applied for a position at the United Nations. Until 1994 she presented UN radio programmes about the UN's role in ending Apartheid. She then worked in the UN's Public Information Department until 2003, when she retired and returned to Cape Town. Sindiwe Magona is a writer, poet, dramatist, storyteller, actress and motivational speaker. She has also written a number of children's books)
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Equivalent(s)Magona, Sindiwe, 1943-
National bib agency no.1031E2116E
Associated languageeng
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