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Mothobi Mutloatse (1952-), is a writer and publisher. Born in Johannesburg, he gained experience in journalism with the Golden City Post, Weekend World, and The Voice before founding Skotaville. Deeply interested in largely forgotten black literary and historical traditions, he has compiled anthologies of black writing including: Forced Landing: Africa South-Contemporary Writing (1980) (banned on publication), a "cultural history penned down by the black man himself." Reconstruction: Ninety Years of Black Historical Literature (1981) focuses on hitherto ignored historical and journalistic texts by such writers as Tiyo Soga, Hope Dube, Noni Jabavu, and Sol T. Plaatje. Most recently Struik has published Tauza - Bob Gosani's People about the late Bob Gosani, one of the original Drum photographers of the 1950s, who worked with all the big names of that era.
Mutloatse's creative writing comprises short fiction and a work for the stage and he has also written a book for children. He also served on the M-Net Literary Awards panel of advisors in 2005.

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