David Yudelman is a South African author and financial writer who resides in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. A theory for the emergence of modern South Africa His major work, The Emergence of Modern South Africa: State, Capital, and the Incorporation of Organized Labour on the South African Gold Fields, 1902-1939, published in 1983, examined the labour movement in South Africa and
Lyall Watson 12 April 1939 – 25 June 2008 was a South African botanist, zoologist, biologist, anthropologist, ethologist, and author of many books, among the most popular of which is the best seller Supernature. Lyall Watson tried to make sense of natural and supernatural phenomena in biological terms. He is credited with coining the “hundredth monkey” effect in his 1979
Marlene van Niekerk is a South African academic, novelist and poet who is best known internationally for her novels Triomf and Agaat. Her graphic and controversial descriptions of a poor Afrikaner family in Johannesburg in Triomf brought her to the forefront of a post-apartheid society still struggling to come to terms with all the changes in South Africa. This novel was made into an award-winning film,
Etienne van Heerden, born 3 December 1954, is a South African author. Contents 1Biography 2Awards 3Works 3.1Creative Work 3.2Other Publications 4External links Biography Van Heerden was born in 1954, six years after the official advent of apartheid. His mother was an English speaking mathematics teacher. His father, an Afrikaans speaking merino stud breeder, farmed the family farm in the Karoo. Van Heerden was reared
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien CBE FRSL /ruːl ˈtɒlkiːn/; 3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973 was an English writer, poet, philologist, and academic, best known as the author of the high fantasy works The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. He served as the Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon and Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford from 1925 to 1945 and the Merton Professor of English Language and Literature and Fellow
Wilbur Addison Smith born 9 January 1933 is a South African (Zambian-born) novelist specialising in historical fiction about the international involvement in Southern Africa across four centuries, seen from the viewpoints of both black and white families. An accountant by training, he gained a film contract with his first published novel When the Lion Feeds. This encouraged him
Mongane Wally Serote born 8 May 1944 is a South African poet and writer. He became involved in political resistance to the apartheid government by joining the African National Congress (ANC) and in 1969 was arrested and detained for several months without trial. He subsequently spent years in exile, working in Botswana, and later London, England, for the ANC in their
Olive Schreiner 24 March 1855 – 11 December 1920 was a South African author, anti-war campaigner and intellectual. She is best remembered today for her novel The Story of an African Farm (1883), which has been highly acclaimed. It deals boldly with such contemporary issues as agnosticism, existential independence, individualism, the professional aspirations of women, and the
Karel Schoeman Afrikaans pronunciation: , 26 October 1939 – 1 May 2017 was a South African novelist, historian, translator and man of letters. He was the author of 19 novels and numerous works of history. He was one of South Africa’s most honoured authors. Schoeman wrote primarily in Afrikaans, although several of his non-fiction books were
Margaret Joan Roberts 1937 – 4 March 2017 was a South African herbalist and author of over 40 books on herbs and related topics. Margaret Roberts brought herbs into South Africa over 60 years ago and gave lectures about the benefits of herbs and healthy living, her motto was to ‘Educate and Inspire’. The Margaret Roberts Herbal Centre