Sardo Dance is Molebatsi’s debut work as a poet. Her poetry stands tall in this collection and her words are as poignant as they are brilliant.

This book of poetry reveals a writer and social activist with a keen awareness of her important role in the global society where women's rights and identities are often not only questioned, but at times rubbished. She speaks of mothers, children, war, palestine, Italy, peace, Africa, love and tears and motherhood and sisterhood. Molebatsi is a writer who is busy working her way into the history books of South Africa poetry legacy.

While Molebatsi’s poetry is critical and often condemning of the poor status of women and the manner in which society treats them, she is also celebratory of women and envisions a future society … catch the poet if you can: read her words, welcome her offering because maybe, just maybe, she is telling your own story.

With a foreword from Makhosazana Xaba, Sardo dance portrays the lives of women and men fully and justly. This is the voice of a poet who refuses to be shaped from ‘a spare bone.’ … by looking unflinchingly at “every unfading shadow,” the lines of these poems do not evade the pain of their subjects, but also do not reduce them only to their pain…