 In 1981 he received the Maskew Miller Longman Literature Award for black children's literature for "A Message in the Wind" (1982), the story of two boys who travel in their homemade time machine to their shared tribal past of 1679.Other children's stories include "Peppy 'n Them" (1991) and "Petroleum and the Orphaned Ostrich" (1988).He has written books for neo-literate adults, such as "The Murder of Mrs. Mohapi" (1995), "My Cousin Thabo" (1995), "Take a Chance" (1995), "My Name is Selina Mabiletsa" (1996), and "Sergeant Dlamini Falls in Love" (1996), biographies of Sol Plaatje and Oliver Tambo for teenagers, and adaptations of works by Bessie Head, Sol Plaatje and Can Themba.