And that is how the Black Mermaid Foundation was born, set up and part-funded by Ndhlovu from her base in Cape Town, on South Africa's south-west coast, where the Indian and Atlantic oceans meet.
Basil du Toit won the £1,500 Wigtown award for his work Mermaid Indoors. The poet - born in Cape Town but resident in Edinburgh since 1980 - said winning the prize was a "total joy". Organisers ...