The JRB presents Victor Dlamini’s literary portraits of Keorapetse ‘Bra Willie’ Kgositsile.

South Africa’s National Poet Laureate, Keorapetse Kgositsile, passed away in Johannesburg on 3 January 2018, at the age of seventy-nine.

Apart from the respect he garnered for his writing, his activism and his intellect, Kgositsile was known for his ever-present, wide smile, which The JRB Photo Editor Victor Dlamini captured in a series of portraits over the years.

Here is Keorapetse Kgositsile, the late Poet Laureate, Victor Dlamini’s lens:

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South Africa’s late Poet Laureate, Keorapetse Kgositsile, photographed with Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka by @victordlamini in March 2010. Watch out for more of Victor’s portraits of Prof Kgositsile in our tribute section of Vol 2, Issue 1, published Monday 15 Jan 18.

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