Tenda Madima is a South Africa

South Africa

The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...

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Madima was born in Venda

Venda

Venda was a bantustan in northern South Africa, now part of Limpopo province. It was founded as a homeland for the Venda people, speakers of the Venda language. It bordered modern Zimbabwe and South Africa, and is now part of Limpopo in South Africa....

, Limpopo

Limpopo

Limpopo is the northernmost province of South Africa. The capital is Polokwane, formerly named Pietersburg. The province was formed from the northern region of Transvaal Province in 1994, and initially named Northern Transvaal...

, and holds a Masters Degree in Public Administration from the University of the Western Cape

University of the Western Cape

The University of the Western Cape is a public university located in the Bellville suburb of Cape Town, South Africa. It was established in 1960 by the South African government as a university for Coloured people only...

. He translated the first Venda language

Venda language

Venda, also known as or , is a Bantu language and an official language of South Africa. The majority of Venda speakers live in the northern part of South Africa's Limpopo Province, but about 10% of speakers live in Zimbabwe. The Venda language is related to Kalanga which is spoken in Botswana...

 novel, A si Ene, written by his father E.S. Madima

E.S. Madima

E.S. Madima was a South African writer in the Venda language.In 1954, Madima wrote the first novel in Venda, A Si Ene. It was later translated into English by his son, Tenda Madima...

, into English, and is the author of several novels, poems, short stories and radio scripts, as well as being the founder of the New African Writer's Association. He has been chairperson of the Batsumi Film Script Committee as well as the African Language Practitioner's Forum in the South African Parliament.

His collection of short stories, Ri khou dzedza, won the African Heritage Literature Award in 1997, and A Victim of Circumstances won the South African Translator's Institute Literary Award in 2000.

Novels

• A Victim of Circumstances (translated from the original Venda novel by E.S. Madima
  E.S. Madima
  E.S. Madima was a South African writer in the Venda language.In 1954, Madima wrote the first novel in Venda, A Si Ene. It was later translated into English by his son, Tenda Madima...
  
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• The Thrill of a Lifetime (2001)