His 2002 play “Sorrows and Rejoicings” concerned a poet who returns to South Africa after a long exile. He eventually came to reappraise his native country in his work: “Victory” (2009), starkly ...

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 ...

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.