Abdul Milazi is a poet

Poet

A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...

, author and financial journalist. He was born at the Bhobhoyi village, in Port Shepstone, a small town in the KwaZulu-Natal

KwaZulu-Natal

KwaZulu-Natal is a province of South Africa. Prior to 1994, the territory now known as KwaZulu-Natal was made up of the province of Natal and the homeland of KwaZulu....

 province, South Africa

South Africa

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He wrote one of the 12 essays in My Dad – South African Sons, an autobiographical novel about father and son relationships in South Africa, published by Two Dogs Publishing, a division of Struik Publishers. His poems are featured in South African and international anthologies including Words Gone Two Soon, Green Dragon and Timbila. He is former Deputy Editor of GQ Magazine (South Africa), Senior Editor of Financial Mail

Financial Mail

Financial Mail , is a South African business publication focused on reaching the country's top business people. This weekly publication, which was launched in 1959, underwent a major "look and feel" change in 2006, which saw it reclaim its position as the most widely read English business weekly in...

, Trade & Industry Editor of Business Day

Business Day (South Africa)

Business Day is a daily national business newspaper published in Johannesburg, South Africa....

 and currently Associate Editor of The Sunday Times

The Sunday Times (South Africa)

The Sunday Times is a popular South African Sunday newspaper. It has an audited circulation of 504,000 and a weekly readership of 3.2 million, making it the largest weekly newspaper in South Africa. Recently it was involved in exposing a corruption scandal involving the South African government's...

. He lives in Johannesburg

Johannesburg

Johannesburg also known as Jozi, Jo'burg or Egoli, is the largest city in South Africa, by population. Johannesburg is the provincial capital of Gauteng, the wealthiest province in South Africa, having the largest economy of any metropolitan region in Sub-Saharan Africa...

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