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Sol Plaatje and the back of the native mind

The author, reporter, editor and chronicler was both a man of his time and ahead of it

  • Darryl Accone
8 min read
Stephen Gray edited a series of South African works for Penguin, bringing back into print several almost forgotten classics. (Paul Botes)
ATHOL FUGARD

Obituary: Literary allrounder Stephen Gray was a scholar, critic, novelist and poet

Stephen Gray made an immense, long contribution to the South African literary landscape across many genres, but it was poetry that he described as ‘the main activity of my life’

  • Shaun De Waal
4 min read