The arts of literature in South Africa was based on a traditional orality, passed from generation to generation and consisted patriotic themes and political struggles of the time.
Black South Africans have a long and rich oral tradition. With the arrival of Europeans, the traditional subjects found a way of writing, in recent years, a significant number of black writers has contributed significantly to the development of South African literature in major languages like Sotho, Xhosa and Zulu, Afrikaans and also English.
South Africa has three major literary traditions developed: English, Afrikaans and Bantu.
South African literature in English begins with the publication in 1883 of The Story of an African Farm (History of African hacienda), Olive Schreiner. Among later writers whose themes were the problems of the South African land and people, and in particular, a political
Poetry is represented by Roy Campbell, of FT Prince and Roy McNab.
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