Athol Fugard, South Africa’s Giant Playwright, Dies

Athol Fugard’s Plays Illustrated the Value of Every Human Life
Sizwe Banzi Is Dead” and other works bear witness to forgotten lives and to the moral blindness and blinkered vision of the realities of apartheid South Africa.
Athol Fugard, South African Playwright Who Spoke to Worldwide Audiences, Dies at 92
Athol Fugard, the South African playwright of works including 'The Road to Mecca,' and 'Boesman and Lena' died on Saturday. He was 92.
Athol Fugard: Death of a great South African playwright
Athol Fugard, who has died aged 92, was widely acclaimed as one of South Africa's greatest playwrights. The son of an Afrikaner mother, he was best known for his politically charged plays challenging the racist system of apartheid.
Appreciation: Playwright Athol Fugard proved the pen could be mightier than the sword
An appreciation of South African playwright Athol Fugard, whose plays that bore witness to the cruelty of apartheid, including 'Blood Knot,' 'Boesman and Lena,' 'A Lesson From Aloes' and 'My Children!
South Africa’s giant playwright Athol Fugard, whose searing works challenged apartheid, dies aged 92
Athol Fugard, South Africa’s foremost dramatist who explored the pervasiveness of apartheid in such searing works as “The Blood Knot” and “'Master Harold’... and the Boys,” has died.
Athol Fugard Dies: South African Playwright & ‘Tsotsi' Writer Was 92
Athol Fugard, the Blood Knot, Master Harold… and the Boys and Tsotsi writer who is widely regarded as South Africa’s greatest ever playwright, has died aged 92. According to AP, the South African government has confirmed Fugard's death and said South Africa "has lost one of its greatest literary and theatrical icons,
Remembering Athol Fugard, Whose Plays Exposed Apartheid’s Cruelty
The South African playwright, who died on March 8 at age 92, brought searing dramatic and moral force to his depictions of people both white and black under his nation’s racist regime.
Playwright Athol Fugard, who chronicled apartheid and its aftermath, dies at 92
The celebrated South African playwright was known for Blood Knot, The Road to Mecca and "Master Harold"...and the Boys. He said his job was to make "leaps out of my reality and into other realities."
Playwright Fugard, whose works challenged apartheid, dies at 92
Athol Fugard, South Africa’s foremost dramatist who explored the pervasiveness of apartheid in such searing works as “The Blood Knot” and “‘Master Harold’… and the Boys” to show how the racist system distorted the humanity of his country with what he called “a daily tally of injustice,
Athol Fugard’s plays offered hope where there was despair, courage where there was dismay
Playwrights and actors — and Fugard’s own words — help us embrace the importance of South Africa’s pre-eminent playwright, Athol Fugard, now that he has passed into history at the age of 92. He died on 9 March at his home in Stellenbosch.
How Athol Fugard made political theater so riveting
Athol Fugard’s plays show the ways apartheid shaped the lives of South Africans, while they also reveal universal truths.
Anant Singh remembers Athol Fugard, the playwright who turned the stage into a battlefield against apartheid
South Africa mourns the loss of Athol Fugard, an extraordinary playwright and anti-apartheid activist whose powerful works ...
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Dr John Kani Pens Emotional Tribute After the Death of Longtime Friend Athol Fugard
Dr John Kani has reacted to his longtime friend and colleague Athol Fugard who recently passed away. Social media users also ...
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GALLERY | 'The moral conscience of a generation': Athol Fugard, a life in pictures
Acclaimed playwright and novelist Athol Fugard died on Saturday, 8 March, at 92. Here we look at Fugard's life and career in ...