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The poem was based on an earlier children's story by Press entitled Krotoa, which was created as part of an educational initiative by the South African Council for Higher Education designed to inform schoolchildren about colonization from the perspective of indigenous South Africans. [19]
This is a list of noted South African poets, poets born or raised in South Africa, whether living there or overseas, and writing in one of the South African languages This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
Gabeba Baderoon is the 2005 recipient of the DaimlerChrysler Award for South African Poetry. 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.
Pages in category "South African children's writers" The following 32 pages are in this category, out of 32 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
Guy Butler Born (1918-01-21) 21 January 1918 Cradock, Eastern Cape, South Africa Died 26 April 2001 (2001-04-26) (aged 83) Grahamstown, South Africa Occupation Playwright, poet Period 1952–2001 Frederick Guy Butler (21 January 1918 – 26 April 2001) was a South African poet, academic and writer. Early life He was born and educated in the Eastern Cape town of Cradock. He attended Rhodes ...
Keorapetse William Kgositsile OIS (19 September 1938 – 3 January 2018), also known by his pen name Bra Willie, was a South African Tswana poet, journalist and political activist.
Tony Ullyatt's The Lonely Art: An Anthology includes South African English poetry. English poetry in South Africa is often considered "good" by whether or not it criticises Apartheid, or whether or not it depicts life "as it is", rather than the Afrikaans emphasis on literary merit taken from Russian Formalism and introduced by Van Wyk Louw.
Cornelis Jacobus Langenhoven (13 August 1873 – 15 July 1932), who published under his initials C.J. Langenhoven, was a South African poet who played a major role in the development of Afrikaans literature and cultural history. His poetry was one of the then young language's foremost promoters.