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The Number: One Man's Search for Identity in the Cape Underworld and Prison Gangs is a non-fiction book written by Jonny Steinberg about South Africa's criminal tradition of prison gangs and published in 2004 by Jonathan Ball Publishers. [1] The book won South Africa's premier nonfiction literary award, the Sunday Times Alan Paton Award. [2]
Eric Rosenthal, (10 July 1905 – 1983) [1] was a South African historian and writer. He was born in Newlands, Cape Town, Cape Colony. He studied as an attorney, later becoming a journalist and writer of many corporate histories. He was a member of the Three Wise Men on Springbok Radio's long-running quiz show, Test the Team. [2]
Seven years in South Africa : travels, researches, and hunting adventures, between the diamond-fields and the Zambesi (1872-79) / by Dr. Emil Holub ; translated by Ellen E. Frewer. Author: Holub, Emil, 1847-1902. Software used: PDF Architect 6: Conversion program: HathiTrust Image Server / PDF::API2: Encrypted: no: Page size: 612 x 792 pts (letter)
The Johannesburg Review of Books (or JRB) is a South African online magazine based on other literary magazines such as The New York Review of Books and the London Review of Books. Its bi-monthly issues include reviews, essays, poetry, photographs, and short fiction focused predominantly but not exclusively on South Africa and other African ...
The following is a list of notable works of fiction which are set in South Africa: Age of Iron by J. M. Coetzee; Karoo Boy by Troy Blacklaws; Burger's Daughter by Nadine Gordimer; The Conservationist by Nadine Gordimer; Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful by Alan Paton; Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton; Too Late the Phalarope by Alan Paton ...
The novel is set in South Africa, home to five distinct populations: Bantu (native Black tribes), Coloured (the result of generations of racial mixture between persons of European descent and the indigenous occupants of South Africa along with slaves brought in from Angola, Indonesia, India, Madagascar and the east Coast of Africa), British, Afrikaner, and Indian, Chinese, and other foreign ...
South Africa has 11 national languages: Afrikaans, English, Zulu, Xhosa, Sotho, Pedi, Tswana, Venda, SiSwati, Tsonga, and Ndebele. Any definitive literary history of South Africa should, it could be argued, discuss literature produced in all 11 languages.
Peter Abrahams is one of South Africa's most prominent writers, [18] his works dealing with political and social issues, especially with racism. His novel Mine Boy (1946), one of the first works to bring him to critical attention, [ 19 ] and his memoir Tell Freedom (1954) [ 20 ] deal in part with apartheid . [ 21 ]