page_title: List of South Africans
section_title: Poets
hierarchical_section_title: List of South Africans / Writers / Poets
caption_attribution_description: Dr. Mongane Wally Serote
context_page_description: This is a list of notable and famous South Africans who are the subjects of Wikipedia articles.
context_section_description: Roy Campbell, poet (1901–1957)
  Judy Croome, poet (born 1958)
  Sheila Cussons, poet (1922–2004)
  Jonty Driver (born 1939)
  Jakob Daniël du Toit, poet a.k.a. Totius (1877–1953)
  Elisabeth Eybers, poet (1915–2007)
  Stephen Gray, writer and poet (born 1941)
  Ingrid Jonker, poet (1933–1965)
  Antjie Krog, poet, novelist and playwright (born 1952)
  Laurence Lerner, poet (1925–2016)
  Lucas Malan, Afrikaans academic and poet (1946–2010)
  Chris Mann, poet (born 1948)
  Eugène Nielen Marais, poet, writer, lawyer and naturalist (1871–1936)
  Thomas Pringle, poet and journalist (1789–1834)
  N. P. van Wyk Louw, poet (1906–1970)
  Mongane Wally Serote, poet, activist and politician (born 1944)
  Stephen Watson, poet (1954–2011)
caption: Mongane Wally Serote
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