'Sindiwe Magona' (born
1943) is a
South African
writer. A native of the
Transkei, she grew up in a
township near
Cape Town, where she worked as a
domestic and completed her secondary education by correspondence. Magona later graduated from the
University of South Africa and earned a graduate degree from
Columbia University. Her first
novel was ''Mother to Mother'', and she has also written
autobiographies and
short story collections. She retired from the
United Nations in
2003 and currently lives in South Africa.