• umBhalo / Literature

    Prof. D.B.Z. Ntuli has made an outstanding contribution to the development of literature in African languages, particularly in his mother tongue, isiZulu. He was twenty one years old  when he published his first  book, a novel entitled UBheka. Thereafter he produced works in various genres – prose, poetry, essays and drama.

  • Dedicated Service

    DBZ is a fierce proponent of isiZulu. Over the course of his life he has been a member of the Zulu Language Board, the isiZulu National Language Body, and the Bureau for Zulu Language and Culture, as an active member of the African Languages Association of South Africa (ALASA), as well as working as an…

  • A Literary Life

    DBZ Ntuli has lived an exceptional literary life, and has published prolifically