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You Can't Get Lost in Cape Town was the first book by Zoë Wicomb.Published in 1987 (by Virago in London), it was a collection of inter-related short stories, set during the Apartheid era and partly autobiographical, the central character being a young Coloured woman growing up in South Africa, [1] speaking English in an Afrikaans-speaking community in Namaqualand, attending the University of ...
Beautiful poems include Kinders van Kain (where the fate of those kicked out is contrasted with the promise of the New Day); Die drumpel (The threshold), in which the harsh manner in which coloured people are treated is challenged by an accusation that, as a racial group, they originated from the immoral behaviour of white pioneers; Kinderland ...
Gladys Doreen Thomas (née Adams, 14 December 1934 – 2 April 2022) was a South African poet and playwright. [1] Thomas was one of the first black South African women poets to be published. [2]
She was born in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, on 21 February 1969. She currently lives and works in Cape Town, South Africa, and Pennsylvania, US. In 1989 she received her Bachelor of Arts in English and psychology from the University of Cape Town. In 1991 she received her BA honours degree in English (First Class) from the University of Cape Town.
Wicomb gained attention in South Africa and internationally with her first book, a collection of inter-related short stories, You Can't Get Lost in Cape Town (1987), set during the apartheid era. The central character is a young woman brought up speaking English in an Afrikaans-speaking "coloured" community in Little Namaqualand, attending the ...
Mattera's grandfather, Paolo Mattera, [3] was an Italian immigrant who married a Xhosa woman from the eastern Cape. They moved to Johannesburg, where Mattera's father was born. At the time, he was classified as an Italian. Under the apartheid system, Mattera was classified as a "Coloured". This group was the last to be forcibly evicted from ...
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Cape Coloured school children in Mitchells Plain Cape Coloured children in Bonteheuwel township (Cape Town, South Africa) The Christmas Bands are a popular Cape Coloured cultural tradition in Cape Town. A group of Cape Coloureds were interviewed in the documentary series Ross Kemp on Gangs. One of the gang members who participated in the ...