Poverty is not invincible | Dr Sindiwe Magona | TEDxCapeTownWomen

Dr. Sindiwe Magona is a multi-award winning writer who has been authoring the lives of South Africans through the apartheid and post-apartheid world for almost thirty years. For TEDxCapeTownWomen Sindiwe jumps from fiction to fact, and shares her personal, and thought-provoking story. For nearly thirty years, Sindiwe Magona has been authoring the lives of South Africans from a broad range of ethnic and economic backgrounds. Her probing and poignant stories, poem, articles, and plays examine the ever-thorny challenges within the apartheid and post-apartheid world. Her first published works, To My Children's Children and Forced To Grow, coming on the cusp of the new Democracy, provide further evidence to the local and global community of the influence of prejudice but not its victory. With a particularly acute perspective of woman's issues in strife-ridden South Africa, Magona's expansive genre of literary works reveal the anguish of the domestic worker who daily beats back the wolf of poverty from her door as found in her award-winning short story collection. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx