Claim: Sipho Sepamla, a contemporary poet and novelist and founder of the Federated Union of Black Artists in South Africa, received the Thomas Pringle Award (1977) and the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres for his writing.
Evidence: Sydney Sipho Sepamla (22 September 1932 – 9 January 2007) was a contemporary South African poet and novelist. He received the Thomas Pringle Award (1977) and the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres for his writing. He was a founder of the Federated Union of Black Artists (now the Fuba Academy of Arts) and editor of the literary magazine New Classic and the theatre magazine S'ketsh.