''Donga'' was a multilingual South African literary magazine which ran from 1976 to 1978.Welma Odendaal, ' ''Donga'': One Angry Voice', ''English in Africa'' Vol. 7, No. 2 (Sep., 1980), pp.67-74. Welma Odendaal announced plans for the new magazine to delegates at the Afrikaanse Skrywersgilde annual conference in 1976.Michael Gardiner
Time to Talk: Literary magazines in the Pretoria-Johannesburg region, 1956 to 1978
Donga, 1 (2002), pp.8–39 Established by Odendaal and Rosa Keet, ''Donga'' aimed to provide a platform for young writers outside the established literary scene, and included contributions in

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. Three individual issues were banned, resulting in the outright ban of the magazine in April 1978, after just eight issues. Odendaal lost her job at the government-controlled

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