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 ...

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

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.

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 ...

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