As Zimbler notes, the Ravan Press edition of Foe, part of a book series funded by the same
Staffrider magazine whose urban Marxist outlook provided a powerful forum for young black writers to chronicle the daily experience of apartheid, placed the book squarely alongside explicitly political black South African output.
"The Poetry of Mafika Gwala."
Staffrider 10 (1992): 43-51.
(39.) Desiree Lewis, "The Politics of Feminism in South Africa,"
Staffrider 10, no.
It assesses first the censors, publishers and writers; and then looks at six case studies that focus on Nadine Gordimer, Es'kia Mphahlele, Breyten Breytenbach and Etienne Leroux, BLAC books, J M Coetzee, and the
Staffrider series.
Richard Rive, "Books by Black Writers,"
Staffrider 5,
As Frank Meintjies and Mi Hlastshwayo (1989) argued in
Staffrider, "worker culture" expressed the "union's anti hierarchical position thus recognizing the importance of every worker's experience." They insisted that worker's self-understanding was a gird against the ruling class "determin[ing] our thinking and actions" (p.
However, only one person managed to come - Chris van Wyk, then the editor of
Staffrider magazine.
His stories had appeared in
Staffrider Magazine since the late 1970s.