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Athol Fugard: the word as tool of resistance
Following his death a month ago, DENNIS WALDER assesses the achievement of the playwright who developed his work in the townships
(L) Playwright Athol Fugard, 1985; (R) A scene from Tsotsi (2005), the Oscar-winning adaptation of Fugard's novel
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STEVEN ANDREW is moved beyond words by a historical account of mining in Britain made from the words of the miners themselves
I WAS shocked to learn that the famous South African writer Athol Fugard had passed away. I had known his age to be 92 but somehow I never expected him to die. He was always a survivor.
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Fugard was born in a town called Middelburg in 1932 in South Africa’s semi-desert Karoo area. His mother was Afrikaans (originally Dutch) and his father seems to have had an Irish background.
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