Mthabisi Sithole
category spoken word
location Joburg

Mthabisi Sithole is a poet, writer and cultural administrator based in Johannesburg, South Africa. He approaches writing as a tool to consider capacities to which one might recognise their occupation of contemporary worldliness.


Mthabisi has presented poetry performances through various platforms The Point Of Order 2016 Fees Must Fall exhibition intervention, Lephephe Print Gatherings 1, Urban Zulu poetry, and Word Art - Young Voices poetry series.


Published poetry includes appearances in Teesta Review: A Journal of poetry, DecolonialPassage, Best New African Poets 2019 anthology, Yesterdays And Imagining Realities: An anthology of South African Poetry (2020) and the Sol Plaatje European Union Poetry Anthology (2023).