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Ntsanwisi was also a prolific writer in his subject. He published a novel "Masungi" in Xitsonga, and a series of Tsonga Readers for Primary Schools, Makomba Ndlela. He was the first African author to write such a series. He also published one scientific work in Linguistics entitled "A
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