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The novelists of the eighties represent the latest stage in an on-going journey of self-discovery that has been taking place as long as black South African poets, novelists, writers and actors, have been creating cultural works.

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Notes

  1. Mafika Gwala, ‘Writing as a Cultural Weapon’ in M. J. Daymond, J. U. Jacobs and M. Lenta (eds), Momentum on Recent South African Writing (University of Natal Press, 1984) p. 39.

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  2. Lewis Nkosi, Tasks and Masks: Themes and Styles of African Literature (Harlow: Longman, 1981) p. 80.

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  3. Mandela’s reply to Botha read in Jubulani Stadium in Soweto on 10 February 1985, quoted in Winnie Mandela, Part of My Soul (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1985) p. 146.

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Watts, J. (1989). Conclusion. In: Black Writers from South Africa. St Antony’s/Macmillan Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20244-7_7

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