Celebrated African poet Kunene dies [South Africa]:
The celebrated African poet Professor Mazizi Kunene has died, the SABC reported on Saturday.
Kunene died in Durban after a long illness. He was 76. In 2005 Kunene was awarded the inaugural SA National Poet Laureate Prize, the M-Net Literary Awards Lifetime Achievement Award and recognised as a National Living Treasure by the Indigenous Knowledge Systems of SA.
He is widely viewed as a prominent exponent of the written Zulu word. [...]
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