Sibusiso Nyembezi

Cyril Lincoln Sibusiso Nyembezi (1919–2000) was a South African writer known as a Zulu novelist, poet, scholar, teacher and editor.^[1] Inkinsela yase Mgungundlovu was made into a television series because of the popularity of the novel.

Bibliography

Novels

• Mntanami! Mntanami! Lincroft books (first printing in 1950 and later entitled Ushicilelo lwesithathu in third printing, 1965)
• Ubudoda abukhulelwa (1953) Shuter and Shooter
• Inkinsela yase Mgungundlovu (1961) Shuter and Shooter

Poetry

• Imisebe yelanga (1963) Afrikaanse Pers Boekhandel
• Amahlunga aluhlaza (1963) Shuter and Shooter

Folklore

• Zulu Proverbs Johannesburg: University of the Witwatersrand
• Izibongo zamakhosi Pietermaritzburg: Shuter and Shooter.(1958)
• Inqolobane yesizwe (1966) (with Otty Ezrom Nxumalo). Pietermaritzburg: Shuter and Shooter

Translation

• Cry, The Beloved Country, by Alan Paton, translated into Zulu as Lafa elihle kakhulu (1958), Pietermaritzburg: Shuter and Shooter

Zulu language studies

• Uhlelo lwesiZulu (1956) Pietermaritzburg: Shuter and Shooter
• Learn Zulu (1958) Pietermaritzburg: Shuter and Shooter
• Compact Zulu Dictionary. London: Dent.(Isizulu)

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