Mandla Langa grew up in the KwaMashu township of Kwazulu Natal.
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Mandla Langa was brought in to complete the second volume of Nelson Mandela's autobiography, left in an unfinished draft when Mandela died in 2013, and published in 2017 as Dare Not Linger: The Presidential Years.
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Mandla Langa was born in Stanger, Durban, South Africa, in 1950 and grew up in the KwaMashu township 20 miles north of Durban, during the implementation of the apartheid system.
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Mandla Langa attended Gardner Memorial School, Sibonelo High School in Durban, and then the University of Fort Hare.
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Mandla Langa spent time in Lesotho, Angola, where he participated in military training in the camps of MK, known as Umkhonto we Sizwe.
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Mandla Langa held various ANC posts abroad, including deputy chief representative of the ANC and its cultural attache in the UK and Western Europe.
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Mandla Langa's published books are Tenderness of Blood, A Rainbow on a Paper Sky, The Naked Song and Other Stories, The Memory of Stones, and The Lost Colours of the Chameleon, which won the 2009 Commonwealth Writers Prize.
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Mandla Langa be participated in the Bush Theatre's 2011 project Sixty-Six Books with a piece based upon a book of the King James Bible.
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Mandla Langa was brought in to complete the follow-up volume to Nelson Mandela's 1994 autobiography Long Walk to Freedom.
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Mandla Langa has two brothers, Pius Langa who served as South African Chief justice and Bheki W J Langa who is a diplomat.
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In 2007, Mandla Langa received South Africa's National Order of Ikhamanga for literary, journalistic and cultural achievements, the citation specifying his "excellent contribution to the struggle against apartheid, achievements in the field of literature and journalism and contributing to post-apartheid South Africa through serving in different institutions".