Recent South African Fiction

1. Recent South African Fiction Landscape & people: an intro

2. 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.

3. Recent South African Fiction: the countryside (Kwa-Ndebele)

4. Recent South African Fiction: the countryside – Ndebele granary

5. Recent South African Fiction: the countryside (Ndebele woman working)

6. Recent South African Fiction: the countryside (Xhosa dwellings)

7. Recent South African Fiction: the countryside (Xhosa women on their land)

8. Recent South African Fiction: the countryside – Venda ‘cultural village’

9. Recent South African Fiction: the countryside – A San hunter

10. Recent South African Fiction: San rock art

11. Recent South African Fiction: Cape Town

12. Recent South African Fiction: Cape Town

13. Njabulo Ndebele at the University of Cape Town

14. 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 bysome 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.

15. Recent South African Fiction: ostrich racing in the Cape

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