Alex La Guma

Alex La Guma was a South African novelist, leader of the South African Coloured People's Organisation (SACPO) and a defendant in the Treason Trial, whose works helped characterise the movement against the apartheid era in South Africa. He was one of the most notable South African writers of the 20th century, and was the recipient of the 1969 Lotus Prize for Literature.

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