The Special Collections Book of the Week this week is: 

Athol Fugard: His Plays, People and Politics, by Alan Shelly

Athol Fugard has done more to document and comment on Apartheid-era South Africa than any other writer in the last century. Using mostly migrant workers and township dwellers, and staging guerrilla-raid productions in black areas, Fugard frequently came into conflict with the government forcing him to take his work overseas. Consequently, powerful plays such as Blood knot, Sizwe Banzi is Dead and Master Harold… and the boys, came to broadcast the iniquities of the Apartheid era to the world. Fugard’s work retains an insistent influence and is studied and performed around the world.

Catalogue Access: https://univofpretoria.on.worldcat.org/oclc/216936866 

This book is available at Special Collections, housed on level 5 of the Merensky 2 Library, and is part of our Africana (ZA) Collection.

The Special Collections unit of the Department of Library Services plays a stewardship role in the acquisition and preservation of the Library's rare and valuable information resources, making them accessible to students, staff and researchers, as well as safeguarding them for future generations.