Author: The Coinage Team
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Chat with Coin
Short background about yourself. Bookworm. What were you like at school? I was a nerd through and through – although I didn’t like going to school per se. Insane affinity for mathematics. Diligent, highly inquisitive although I abhorred the construct of “school”. On Wednesdays, Gabsie and I had mini-Saturday – where we’d go to…
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ABOUT: Christina Engela
Christina Engela is a fervent advocate of human rights and equality for all people, and also the proud owner of a warped sense of humour, and it shows. She lives in Port Elizabeth (where she enjoys watching birds fly backwards) – a tourist haven with an unhealthy preoccupation with apples and whose mascot symbol is…
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ABOUT: Batia Efrat
Batia is a writer of many things, poetry being her favourite. Born to an artist mother, she found herself gifted with words at an early age. Her work explores both the thrills and fragility of the human condition – those murky spaces where few dare tread. Batia’s free style imbues her writing with poignant images…
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ABOUT: Siza Nkosi
Siza Nkosi is a published poet, writer, lyricist, guitarist and a mother who has shared pages of her life-stories on stages with renowned poets and artists. She currently works as an IT Networking Specialist. Her journey as a poet and writer started in 2006, when she was discovered by Abdul Milazi – Editor of Sunday…
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ABOUT: Lebogang Mashishi
“We all need someone to hold our hand, tell us it will be alright, we could all do with a bit of motivation” Lebogang Mashishi’s love for reading and writing started when he was in high school. Over the years, he observed the life around him and with the hopes of making a difference in…
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Chat with Thibz
“Wanting to meet an author because you like his work is like wanting to meet a duck because you like pâté.” Tell us one thing about yourself I didn’t grow up, I tumbled up. What were you like at school? I was naughty – an attention seeker. A primary school teacher called me a busy…
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about
Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity. It is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary and the writer, the engineer of the human soul, does this all in solitude. #Coinage is a writing portal dedicated to the writers who…
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The Coinage Book Drive – Phuthaditjhaba
In 2013, we held a book drive for our first beneficiary, a start-up community library in Phuthaditjhaba. QwaQwa run by Nyakallo Lephoto. We received a lovely collection of paper and hardbacks, mostly South African novels covering a variety of topics. Most books were in excellent condition, assuring many more readings, and the collection is currently…