Kelwyn Sole (b. 1951) is a South African poet and academic.Sole graduated with Honours in English from the University of the Witwatersrand and followed that up with an MA at the University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies.Reluctant to return to apartheid South Africa, Sole initially taught in Kanye, Botswana, before returning to South Africa to co-edit the literary journal, Donga.