In 2018 she was awarded the 2018 Ingrid Jonker Prize for Poetry. Ingrid Jonker was a famous poet from South Africa, who walked into the sea and ended her life, that was tormented by so many things and events. But her name has not been forgotten and an award has been started.

In 2018 the South African poet Sindiswa Busuku-Mathese (Ph.D. student at Stellenbosch University) was the recipient of this prize. In this article you will find some of her poems from her published collection of poetry.