Athol Fugard, the South African playwright of works including 'The Road to Mecca,' and 'Boesman and Lena' died on Saturday.

World Poetry Day is celebrated annually on 21st March, as declared by UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and ...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South African writer and poet Breyten Breytenbach, a staunch opponent of the former white-minority government’s apartheid policy of racial oppression, has died in Paris ...

South African poetry, rich with history, has long been an underappreciated cornerstone of the country’s cultural landscape. But a new free-to-access digital archive is helping change that.

In commemoration of World Poetry Day and Human Rights Day in South Africa on March 21, poets from the Paper Trail Literary Journal group have written poems on the significance of human rights.

He hitchhiked through Africa in 1953 with South African poet Perseus Adams, and ended up working as a sailor, the only white seaman on his ship. Fugard's theater experience was confined to acting in a ...

The celebrated South African writer and poet Breyten Breytenbach has died at 85. He used his art to fight for justice for marginalised people throughout his life.

A backlash continues to rage about the contentious delegation sent by the Department of Sport, Arts and Culture to Cuba in February to represent South African writers.

The initiative highlights spoken word as a way to engage youth voices in Africa and Europe around issues of human rights and social justice. It is organized by the Goethe-Institut South Africa, ...

Malawian poets Q Malewezi and Christina Kamwendo have ... Other participants are from Egypt, Ghana, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, South Africa, Sudan and Zimbabwe.