Biography of Siphosenkosi Jantjies

I was raised and bred in Johannesburg (South Africa). My primary schools were Fairview Junior School and Troyeville Primary School, and my high school at Kensington Secondary School. I started writing at a very young age but took it seriously when I was in the 11th grade. That was after I stopped playing soccer and started attending poetry classes and bible studies. It's then that I realised that writing felt like home. It was a though I have been found.

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Did you ever stand in a Cavern's Mouth-
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