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          Pitika Ntuli

          South African sculptor, poet, writer and academic (born 1942)

          Pitika Ntuli

          Born1942 (age 82–83)

          Springs, Gauteng, South Africa

          EducationPratt Institute
          Occupation(s)Sculptor, poet, writer and academic
          SpouseAntoinette Ntuli

          Pitika Ntuli (born 1942) is a South African sculptor, poet,[1] writer, and academic who spent 32 years of his life in exile in Swaziland and the UK.[2][3]

          Biography

          Pitika Ntuli was born in Springs, Gauteng, South Africa, and grew up in Witbank in Mpumalanga.[4] He became active in the struggle against the apartheid government, as a result of which he was exiled.[5] From 1963, he lived in Swaziland, where he was eventually arrested and detained as a political prisoner, spending a year in solitary isolation in a death row prison cell in Swaziland until international pressure on the South African and Swaziland authorities secured his release in 1978 to