Khayalethu Mguzulo

Khayalethu Ruddy Mguzulo is the last born of four children. Raised in Soweto Orlando East South Africa, he moved to Sebokeng Golden Gardens at the age of 23 due to not being able to complete high school.
He studied ICT and fashion designing, however, after not completing both courses, he then resorted to running the family business of a tuck shop, where he discovered a love for poetry through watching YouTube videos during his spare time.

In 2018 challenged to write poems and take part in poetry slams.

He placed 2nd place in the Tewop poetry slam two times, 1st in Recite Your Own poetry and was the Soweto 2k challenge winner.
Now has an award from the African Print Authors & Poetry Awards for ‘Best Male Poet’ and a ‘Poet of the Year’ Award from Word n Sound 2019.

In 2020 Mguzulo got to share his first-ever showcase on the World of Words stage, also being part of the Current State of Poetry class of 2020/2021. He was one of the five acts selected by Music X Words to travel to Poland for the Gobaltica Festival 2022. Had the opportunity to be part of the Womad festival South Africa performing alongside USA jazz band D’dat, from the success of performing with D’dat the relationship extended to having three songs on their latest album Kindred Spirits a Navajo – South African Story. Add on world achievements Mguzulo slams South Africa into the top 10 of the World Poetry Slam Runners-Up Championship. In the year of 2021 place 2nd in the Poetry Africa Slam, the following year was one of the finalists.
He seeks to tell issues kept secret between him, poetry and society.