Isabella Motadinyane

South African poet, performance poet and actor

Isabella Motadinyane (1963 – 2003) was a South African poet, performance poet and actor.

She was born in Soweto and was a founding member of the Botsotso Jesters poetry group, and was on the editorial board of Botsotso Publishing, both named after a line from one of her poems "die is mos bosotsos". She wrote and performed in a number of languages, including English, Sotho, Camtho and Afrikaans.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Works

We Jive Like This, Botsotso Publishing, 1996
Dirty Washing, Botsotso Publishing, 1999
Bella (Collected Works), 2007

References

^ "Isabella Motadinyane". Poetry International. Retrieved 1 May 2016.
^ "Isabella Motadinyane". Badilish Poetry X-Change. Retrieved 1 May 2016.
^ "poet muses: Isabella Motadinyane, poet (1963 – 2003)". Poetry Potion. Retrieved 1 May 2016.