Benedict Wallet Vilakazi
(1906-1947)
South African poet
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Benedict Wallet Vilakazi (6 January 1906 – 26 October 1947) was a South African Zulu poet, novelist, and educator. In 1946, he became the first black South African to receive a Ph.D. Vilakazi Street in Soweto is named after him and it is now famous as the place where both Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu once lived.
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6 January 1906 KwaDukuza, Natal
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| Died |
26 October 1947 (aged 41) Johannesburg, South Africa
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| Zodiac | Capricorn |
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