Bandile Gumbi holds a BA Social Science from the University of Natal. Since 2000 she has performed in Durban, Johannesburg and Cape Town, mainly at poetry clubs and art exhibitions. She is a founding member of 3rd Eye Vision, an artist-administrated interdisciplinary arts organization based in Durban. She has also collaborated with visual artists and participated in interdisciplinary arts workshops and exhibitions in Cape Town through Thupelo Workshops organized by Greatmore Studios.         Her poetry has appeared in magazines and journals in South Africa. The established feminist journal Agenda has published her prose and short fiction. Gumbi has worked as production assistant on various Centre for Creative Arts festivals such as Time of the Writer, Poetry Africa, the Durban International Film Festival and the Awesome Africa Music Festival. She is currently part of the threesome organizing music gigs under the theme ‘Waiting for the Music’. She has self-published her first poetry collection Pangs of Initiation. Bandile performed at Poetry Africa 2004.

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