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Do you have a favourite experience of where your storytelling has taken you?

Every experience matters! Being a magazine journalist taught me a lot about looking at the world objectively, performing in parliament meant that the whole country was listening to my voice and my art, and teaching young people gives me a spiritual feeling of coming to meet the purpose of my talent.

You recently held your self-funded poetry competition – PrimPoetry – in Khayelitsha. What was that like?

I am so inspired by the talent that exists in our communities; the language skills of those poets are exceptional.

Tell us about the children’s book you’re working on for Xhosa and English learners.

This is a collection of stories that I think will make an impact on children today. It’s important that I write in my mother tongue because there are not many books that are written in our home languages.

For more. go to www.bookslive.co.za

“I got inspired to write for children after I had my son.” – Q&A with poet Primrose Mrwebi