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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.

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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.

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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.

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John Kani Pays Tribute to Dramatist and South African Countryman Athol Fugard: “He Believed in Me and My Anger”

The 'Lion King' and 'Black Panther' actor wrote two searing protest plays about apartheid in the 1970s with his inspirational friend, who died this month.

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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, ...

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Athol Fugard, 92, Playwright Who Exposed Torments of Apartheid, Dies

Published March 9, 2025Updated March 11, 2025, 12:18 a.m. ET Athol Fugard, the South African playwright whose portrayals of intimate relationships burdened by oppressive racial separatism exposed ...