South African activist Frank Anthony wrote a novel that has been forgotten: why it shouldn’t have been
HOW does it come about that a man who dedicated the greater part of his life to a vision of a just South Africa, and sacrificed his family and personal relationships to do so, disappears from the annals of the country’s history? How does a writer with consummate command of two of South Africa’s national languages – English and Afrikaans – and whose work in poetry and prose reflects deep insights into world politics, literature and culture come to be virtually totally forgotten? Author F. FIONA MOOLLA, Senior Lecturer in English, University of the Western Cape This is what happened…