“Everything that was happening I used to write it down, not knowing I am a writer,” says the author of Bokgopo ba batswadi baka (Heartlessness of parents), who decided to pour her heart out by putting pen to paper.
Nomalanga Vanga was born on 15 January 1990 on a farm near Wesselsbron, and started her schooling at the Mmabana Primary School.
In 2004 she moved to Klerksdorp and attended the Metebong Secondary School to complete her schooling career.
Her love for cooking and baking inspired her to study Hospitality and Tourism at the Vuselela College in Klerksdorp, later attaining her second qualification in office administration at the IQ Academy.
Nomalanga is writer, motivational speaker, and actor.
She became a writer at the age of nine years after she lost her mom to a fire in 1999.
Through all the trauma she faced after her mother’s death, she also experienced abuse at the hands of family members.
She used the pen as her healing tool through her experiences, and wrote down everything she felt. Thus, an author as born.
It was during high school that she realised she has a gift for writing. Writing then became part of her healing and counselling journey as she journals all her emotions.
“I even wrote about other people’s experiences, putting myself in their shoes through creating stories about them. That is how I fell in love with writing,” she said.
Vanga has already written 12 books so far, and managed to publish her first novel.
Vanga wrote about the heartlessness of some parents in her experiences, realising how detached some parents can appear towards their children. She believes it is not spoken about enough, with kids rather being deemed unruly when their behaviour may just stem from a less than stellar upbringing.
In the book she tries to reach out to parents, imploring them to love and protect every child.
Matlakala is the main character in Vanga’s book who was rejected by her parents and later adopted by a white family because her parents did not give her the love she needed.
The character was born after her mother was raped, so she was unwanted.
The child later loses her adoptive parents, living as an orphan while her biological parents are still alive.
