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Recent South African Fiction
Landscape & people: an intro
Recent South African Fiction: the countryside (colonials tended to imagine countryside as open and a place for recreation – or even if productive farmland, without people. (Check earlier images!) Indigenous imagination has tended to see land and people as harmonious whole.
Recent South African Fiction: the countryside (Kwa-Ndebele)
Recent South African Fiction: the countryside – Ndebele granary
Recent South African Fiction: the countryside (Ndebele woman working)
Recent South African Fiction: the countryside (Xhosa dwellings)
Recent South African Fiction: the countryside (Xhosa women on their land)
Recent South African Fiction: the countryside – Venda ‘cultural village’
Recent South African Fiction: the countryside – A San hunter
Recent South African Fiction: San rock art
Recent South African Fiction: Cape Town
Recent South African Fiction: Cape Town
Njabulo Ndebele at the University of Cape Town
It is very important to remember the cultural variety, the varieties of ancestry in South Africa
(Archbishop Desmond Tutu has called South Africa the ‘Rainbow Nation’).
Not only are there people of San and Khoi ancestry and people of Xhosa, Zulu, Venda ancestry
(for example) - there are the people who came to be known as Coloured. And then (also) there
are the descendants of Indian people who were brought to South Africa to work as indentured servants in
the sugar cane fields. (There is a small population of people of Chinese descent.)
Among the descendants of Europeans there are the Dutch-descended Afrikaners (who were joined by
some Calvinist French in the 17th century escaping religious persecution in Catholic France) and the original
British settlers. 20th century South Africa
saw a lot of migration from other European
countries – some escaping
persecution in central Europe
during the times of Hitler & Stalin.
There is also a small but significant
number of people who are Portuguese
descended.………………….Here is a Hindu
Temple, serving the Indian
Community in Cato Manor,
outside Durban.
Recent South African Fiction: ostrich racing in the Cape
Recent South African Fiction
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