A History of South African Literature, timeline 1824-2005
… and urban squalor to bring him up. 1960 In the early 1960s, the State of Emergency used by the apartheid state to … of South Africa's oppressed. At the same time, in the 1960s, new talent was emerging in the Afrikaans literary … in Botswana. Another writer to make his name in the 1960s was Wilbur Smith, South Africa's most popular literary …