After being arrested in 1976, Mandla Langa skipped bail and went into exile. He has lived in Botswana, Lesotho, Mozambique, Angola, where he did MK military training, Zambia, Budapest and London. In 1980 he won the Drum story contest and in 1991 he was awarded the Arts Council of Great Britain Bursary for creative writing, the first for a South African. He has held various ANC posts abroad, such as Cultural Representative in the UK and Western Europe. His published works include; Tenderness of Blood (1987), A Rainbow on a Paper Sky (1989), The Naked Song and Other Stories (1997) and The Memory of Stones (2000). Langa won the African section of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for his latest novel, The Lost Colours of the Chameleon (2008). Mr Langa appears with the assistance of the South African Consulate and South African Airways.