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Sydney Vernon Petersen was born on 22 June 1914 in Riversdale, a town in the south of the Western Cape Province of South Africa. He was the second child in a family of five children, of which all five later became teachers.
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]
Ferrus leads writing workshops in Cape Town while working as an administrator at the University of the Western Cape. [1] Ferrus is best known for her poem about Sarah Baartman, a South African woman taken to Europe under false pretenses and paraded as a curiosity. [2] She wrote the poem in 1998 while studying at Utrecht University.
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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 ...
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.
Cape Colony; Zulu Kingdom; Orange Free State; Transvaal Republic; ... South African poetry This page was last edited on 30 November 2024, at 11:01 (UTC). Text is ...
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 ...