Nadine Gordimer
Novelist and Nobel laureate who wrote against apartheid
The novelist who stayed, and turned staying itself into dissent.
The rise
Born on 20 November 1923 in Springs, Transvaal, she began publishing stories in her teens. Her fiction mapped the interior landscape of apartheid South Africa with forensic moral clarity.
What they did
The full picture
Why it matters
What citizens said
Afrobarometer Round 9 (2021–2023) — South Africa
Trust in president27%
Trust in parliament23%
Trust in courts50%
% who say 'trust somewhat' or 'trust a lot' · Afrobarometer Dispatch No. 891
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