This is an edited extract of Janet Remmington’s chapter titled ‘Olive Schreiner, Race and Black South Africa’, from Olive Schreiner: Writing Networks and Global Contexts
It is 40 years since Ruth First was assassinated. What would she say about South Africa today?
As the Karoo hopes for an end to its worst drought in a generation, the region’s history may hold important lessons for its future
The arid Karoo was fertile soil for the writing of a young, white, female agnostic in the late 1800s and she is an example of a decolonised mind