UNOLALI

205pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2021

Awarded the Silver Sanlam Prize for Youth Literature 2021.

Velile, who hates school, becomes involved in illegal mining and gambling and is suspended. When he meets an ex-classmate who had gone to Cuba to study medicine he is inspired to change his ways.

Text in isiXhosa.

Thulani Simayile lives in Cape Town. Unolali is his debut novel.