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Adam Small (21 December 1936 – 25 June 2016) was a South African writer who was involved in the Black Consciousness Movement and other activism. He was noted as a Coloured writer who wrote works in Afrikaans that dealt with racial discrimination and satirized the political situation.
The university’s Rector and Vice-Chancellor described Prof Small as “one of those critical voices – one of the loudest, in fact, an acclaimed poet, playwright and academic who wrote himself into the very being of the South African nation as compass and moral conscience” (IOL, 2018).
Jun 28, 2016 · Black Consciousness activist, Afrikaans poet and revered academic Adam Small has passed away. In his large volume of work he gave voice to the downtrodden – those marginalised by...
Jul 13, 2016 · Adam Small is op 21 Desember 1936 in Wellington in die Boland gebore. In 1937 trek die gesin na Goree, ’n buitewyk en sendingpos aan die Vinkrivier buite Robertson, waar sy pa, John Sylvester Small, meester was van ’n eenmanskool vir die kinders van die plaaswerkers.
Adam Small wrote works, such as Kanna hy kô hystoe (1965; Kanna—He Is Coming Home), that revealed the realities of the lives of nonwhites in South Africa. Ingrid Jonker wrote intensely personal poetry.
Jul 3, 2016 · Adam Small, who has died in Cape Town at the age of 79, was an Afrikaans poet, playwright and philosopher of almost legendary status in the Western Cape during apartheid.When he published, it...
Adam Small. Adam Small ( Wellington, 21 Desember 1936 — Kaapstad, 25 Junie 2016) was 'n Suid-Afrikaanse skrywer en een van die belangrikste Afrikaanse verteenwoordigers van die Swartbewussynsbeweging. Small het veral bekend geword deur sy gedigte en toneelstukke.
