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ArchiveDunlop worker wins history workshop prize for his writing
ArchiveAcross the colour line: some remarks on South African writing
Moorings: Portuguese Expansion and the Writing of Africa by Josiah Blackmore
BiographySantu Mofokeng
… and Social Identity, The Walther Collection, Neu-Ulm. Writings 'Train Church'. From South Africa· New Writing, …
BiographyPeter Henry Abrahams
… I became a nationalist, a colour nationalist, through the writings of men and women who lived a world away from me. To … Indiana University Press|Ogungbesan,…
BiographyAugust Aime Balkema
… like A Roland Hoist and Marthinus Nijhoff, but also the writings of English and French authors, both languages being …
BiographyJane Gool
… Movement and the APDUSA. She actively collaborated in the writings of her husband IB Tabata and while in exile she …
BiographyHerbert Isaac Ernest Dhlomo
… all his writing in the English language. Some of his early writings included a forty page novel entitled ‘An African …
The I of the beholder - Identity formation in the art & writing of Breyton Breytenbach
BiographyEmil Sachs
… socialism and established a group which studied the writings of, amongst others, Marx and Stalin, whom he admired …
Ndibhala Intando Yam: A Converstation on Translating "I Write What I Like" by Steve Biko
A book that shaped political consciousness is finally speaking isiXhosa - in the community where Black thought has always lived.For decades, I Write What I…
BiographyJanet Mary Cherry
… artist and singer and a former champion show jumper. Her writings include Umkhonto we Sizwe (2011) and various papers …
During Napoleon Bonaparte’s Egyptian campaign, a French soldier discovers a Black basalt slab inscribed with ancient writing ne
From Resistance to Creative Mediation: Writing and Literary Intellectuals’ Influence on the Liberation Struggles and Political Impact on Literary Discourse and Developments
From Resistance to Creative Mediation: Writing and Literary Intellectuals’ Influence on the Liberation Struggles and Political Impact on Literary Discourse and…
BiographyZubeida “Juby” "Sharon Davis" Mayet
Zubeida “Juby” "Sharon Davis" Mayet was born December 27,in 1937 in Fietas, Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng). Mayet began writing in the mid-1950s while…
BiographyMpumelelo Paul “Cosmo” Grootboom
Mpumelelo Grootboom, controversial and liberal playwright was born in Meadowlands, Soweto in 1975, were he was raised by his grandparents. He was a year old…
Faith and Courage - The Political Papers of Mewa Ramgobin 1960's - 1994: Part 3 - Writing and Commentary Section 4 India
From the book: Faith and Courage - The Political Papers of Mewa Ramgobin 1960's - 1994 by Mewa Ramgobin and Ian Edwards
Writing by the flash of fireflies by Karen Lazar (Mail and Guardian),20 November 2013,South Africa
BiographyVincent Oliphant
Vincent Oliphant was born on 8 April 1954 in Alicedale, a small Eastern Cape town close to Port Elizabeth. He completed his primary education at the Alicedale…
BiographyChief Hendrik ‘Hennie’ van Wyk
… research into Khoi history and identity, including various writings on early colonial explorations of South Africa, to …
BiographyKeorapetse William Kgositsile
Keorapetse William Kgositsile (popularly known as Bra Willie) was born in Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng). He attended Matibane High School. Influenced…
BiographyAlex la Guma
Alex la Guma is known as one of South Africa’s foremost activist writers, both for his reportage and fiction writing depicting the oppressive measures of…
BiographyDiane Case
Diane Case was born in Woodstock, Cape Town in 1955, the daughter of an Indian father and mixed race mother of slave ancestry. The family later moved to…
Black South African Poets of the 1970’s and their Publications
… Poet Critical Writings and Interviews Publications Date Keorapetsi …
BiographyBreyten Breytenbach
Breytenbach was an opponent of the apartheid regime, whose work represented a milestone in the development of Afrikaans poetry, formally and politically. His…
BiographyArthur Nuthall Fula
… period of unemployment, Fula started writing. His early writings comprised mostly of poems, letters to the press, and …
BiographyRobert Sobukwe
… the ANCYL. During this period he became influenced by the writings of Anton Lembede and he began adopting an …
ArchiveSettlers and Laborers: The Afterlife of Indenture in Early South African Indian Writing by Nienke Boer
BiographyNise Bulelwa Malange
Nise Malange was born in 1960, in Cape Town Western Province (now Western Cape Province), South Africa and grew up in Clovelly. As a young teenager she became…
BiographyAndré Philippus Brink
Brink is a distinguished South African novelist, playwright, literary critic and academic who challenged the apartheid government. He is now Professor of…