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Mongane Wally Serote was born on 8 May, 1944 in Sophiatown, Johannesburg, South Africa, is a South African poet and cultural activist (born 1944). Discover Mongane Wally Serote's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 79 years old?
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Poet and cultural activist |
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79 years old |
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Taurus |
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8 May 1944 |
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8 May |
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Sophiatown, Johannesburg, South Africa |
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South Africa
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Mongane Wally Serote Height, Weight & Measurements
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He is currently single. He is not dating anyone. We don't have much information about He's past relationship and any previous engaged. According to our Database, He has no children.
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Mongane Wally Serote Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Mongane Wally Serote worth at the age of 79 years old? Mongane Wally Serote’s income source is mostly from being a successful Poet. He is from South Africa. We have estimated Mongane Wally Serote's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Mongane Wally Serote (born 8 May 1944) is a South African poet and writer.
Mongane Wally Serote was born in Sophiatown, Johannesburg, 1944, just four years before the National Party (South Africa) came to power in South Africa.
His early education took place in the poverty-stricken township of Alexandra and later at Morris Isaacson High School – the school in Jabavu, Soweto, and Sacred Heart Commercial High School, Lesotho.
He first became involved in the Black Consciousness Movement when he was finishing high school in Soweto.
His presence in that town linked him to a group known as the "township" or "Soweto" poets, and his poems often expressed themes of political activism, the development of black identity, and violent images of revolt and resistance.
He became involved in political resistance to the apartheid government by joining the African National Congress (ANC) and in 1969 was arrested and detained for several months without trial.
He was arrested by the apartheid government under the Terrorism Act in June 1969 and spent nine months in solitary confinement, before being released without charge.
Serote went to study in New York City, United States, obtaining a Fine Arts degree at Columbia University.
After contributing poems to various journals, in 1972 he published his first collection, Yakhal'Inkomo.
He was not able to return to South Africa and he began a life in exile, Serote remained in voluntary exile, going in 1977 to Botswana, where he rejoined the ANC underground and its military wing, uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK).
He was a Fulbright Scholar and received a fine arts degree from Columbia University in 1979.
He lived in Gaborone, where he was involved in the Medu Art Ensemble, and in London, England, where he relocated in 1986 and worked for the ANC's Department of Arts and Culture.
He subsequently spent years in exile, working in Botswana, and later London, England, for the ANC in their Arts and Culture Department, before eventually returning to South Africa in 1990.
He returned to South Africa in 1990, after the ANC was unbanned.
Serote held a variety of positions in the ANC, returning to South Africa in 1990, when he was appointed Head of the Department of Arts and Culture of the ANC in Johannesburg.
He has also served as chair of the parliamentary select committee for arts and culture.
Serote was awarded honorary doctorates from the universities of KwaZulu-Natal and Transkei.
Until recently he was a Member of Parliament and Chairman of the Portfolio Committee for Arts, Culture, Language, Science and Technology.
In 1993, he won the Noma Award for Publishing in Africa.
In 2004, he received the Pablo Neruda award from the Chilean government.
He has served as chair of the parliamentary select committee for arts and culture, and was also the CEO of Freedom Park, a national heritage site in Pretoria opened in 2007.
He has founded a few NGOs, iIKSSA Trust where he is the Chairperson, IARI which he is also the CEO.
He sits on a few advisory boards in the country dealing with Arts, Culture, Indigenous Knowledge and African Renaissance issues.
He was inaugurated as South Africa's National Poet Laureate in 2018.
In 2018, Serote was announced as the National Poet Laureate of South Africa, following the death of Keorapetse Kgositsile.
