/ 4 June 1999

Yuppie gets M-Net prize

Last weekend M-Net presented prizes totaling R230 000 to the winners in the various language categories of the annual M-Net Book Prize, given to a novel published within the previous year.

The winners were:

l English: The Tikieline Yuppie by Mehlaleng Mosotho (Vivlia)

l Afrikaans: Op Soek na Generaal Mannetjies Mentz by Christoffel Coetzee (Queillerie)

l Nguni languages:Koda Kube Nini Na? by Livingstone Lubabalo Ngewu (Heinemann)

l Sotho languages:Hlabang Tlou ka Diloka by Lazarus M Malebana (Shuter & Shooter)

l Venda:Magala a Vhahali by Sampson Nditsheni Mahamba (Heinemann),

l Tsonga: I Vutomi by Conny Masocha Lubisi (Maskew Miller Longman)

The prizes were handed over at a dinner at the MTN Sundome in Gauteng.

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