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Danwood Chirwa
Professor Danwood Mzikenge Chirwa is Head of the Public Law Department at the University of Cape Town, where he is also an Associate Professor and a fellow. He teaches administrative ...

Dave-Brendon de Burgh
Dave-Brendon de Burgh is a very active member of both the South African and international Fantasy, Science-Fiction and Speculative Fiction communities.
He runs two very successful blogs - one on his ...

David Chislett
David Chislett is a multi-talented speaker and writer. He is an experienced voice artist and MC with a strong background in poetry, theatre and live radio work, as well as ...

David Dison
David Dison is best known as a specialist defamation and media lawyer. A founder of the Weekly Mail, he fought numerous anti-censorship cases. Throughout the eighties he represented hundreds of ...

David Johnson
David Johnson is Senior Lecturer and Head of Department, Department of English, The Open University. He is the author of Shakespeare and South Africa (Clarendon Press, 1996) and Imagining the ...

David Muirhead
David Muirhead was born in Dar-es-Salaam. He was sent away to boarding school at the age of eight, first to Eldoret in Kenya and then to a school on the ...

David wa Maahlamela
Poet and prose writer David wa Maahlamela hails from Mankweng in Polokwane, Limpopo. He studied both Electrical and Mechanical Engineering, and worked as a fitter and turner artisan at ...

Dawie van Velden
Dr Dawie van Velden praktiseer in Pietersburg en Sabie waarna hy aansluit by die UOVS as Direkteur van die Studentegesondheidsdiens.
In 1984 word hy aangestel as senior lektor aan die ...

De Waal Venter
De Waal published his first volume of poetry in 1963. Since then he has published more volumes of poetry, novels, children's stories, short stories, stage plays, radio plays and TV ...

Denis Beckett
Denis Beckett is widely recognised as ‘that guy who was on television’. He was the editor of the prestigious Frontline magazine for many years and has been a columnist and ...

Derek Abdinor
Derek was born in Johannesburg and is surprised to find himself still living there. He put off going to University by a series of misadventures, one of which was backpacking ...

Derick Muller
Derick Muller is the founder and creative director of the Cape Town based advertising agency, The Suits. In 2007, his debut novel "Vuil Skottelgoed", was the Afrikaans category winner of ...

Diane Awerbuck
Diane Awerbuck is a novelist and teacher. She is the author of Gardening at Night, winner of the Commonwealth Best First Book Award for Africa and the Caribbean, Cabin Fever, ...

Dianne Stewart
Dianne Stewart has worked extensively in the field of the oral tradition. It inspired many of her children’s books including The Dove and The Gift of the Sun which has ...

Dion Chang
Dion Chang has worked in various fields within the fashion and magazine industry for the past 15 plus years...long enough to know that trends, like any dish laced with garlic, ...

Don Pinnock
Don Pinnock is an associate of Southern Write and a former editor of Getaway magazine in Cape Town, South Africa. He has travelled extensively throughout the world for the past ...
Donvé Lee
I grew up good, clean and quiet, in the conservative little town of Krugersdorp in the western shadow of Johannesburg. I escaped as soon as I could, rebelled –quietly - ...
Dora Taylor
Dora Taylor was born in Scotland in 1899. Orphaned at an early age, she suffered physical abuse and neglect by a succession of indifferent relatives, until eventually she was adopted ...

Doug Downie
I was born and spent most of my life in the US. At various times I've been a hobo, a gardener, a carpenter, a taxi driver, a winery worker, a ...