Fourth-year medical students Banele Mhlongo and Vuma Mthembu are developing an app that they are hoping will improve the lives of deaf patients using healthcare facilities – and their understanding of common diseases. Read more: bit.ly/2JBQ6QH

"I've always felt that the ghetto was a place of displacement" Thandiswa Mazwai #AbantuBookFest

"Blackness is our struggle, burden and poverty" Thandiswa Mazwai #AbantuBookFest

Thandiswa Mazwai 'write about your own experiences' #truth #AbantuBookFest

#ThisDayInHistory Former President Nelson Mandela signs the Constitution into law in Sharpeville in 1996!

So looking forward to conversation with ll living legends Morgan Wally Serote and Don Mattera at #AbantuBookFest today.

This is so refreshing from the Time of the Writer I normally attend in Durban. Our languages matter #AbantuBookFest

When you oppressed by your swag still on point! #Umswenko#SquadGoals 📷 Photo by: Bob Gosani Year: 1955 Place: Sophiatown

We owe the greatest of gratitude to every single soul that made #AbantuBookFest possible! Abantu Book Festival

Relationship Goals ❤

#quoteoftheday “When you forgive without demanding justice you reward injustice.”-Dr. Amos N. Wilson

#DidYouKnow Chris Hani graduated from Rhodes University in Grahamstown, with a BA degree in Latin and English in 1962.

#ThisDayInHistory South African veteran journalist and activist Zwelakhe Sisulu is arrested at John Vorster Square in 1986.

"We do not want to be better blacks we just want to be black"-Vuyani Pambo

#QuoteOfTheDay “The condition of women in a nation is the real measure of its progress.”—Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

“Nobody warned you that the women whose feet you cut from running would give birth to daughters with wings.”—Ijeoma Umebinyuo

#DidYouKnow Anton Lembede (first ANCYL President) was multilingual and spoke isiZulu, Xhosa, seSotho, English, Afrikaans, German and Latin!👑