Alex la guma biography

Alex La Guma (20 February – 11 October ) 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. La Guma was reared in a family active in the black liberation movement. In he joined the staff of the progressive newspaper New Age. During the next few years he was detained and imprisoned several times for his antiapartheid activities. Early years First steps Professional growth Public recognition Peak period Later years Public interest Professional activity Media attention
Alex la Guma is known as one of South Africa’s foremost activist writers, both for his reportage and fiction writing depicting the oppressive measures of Apartheid. la Guma was born in in District Six, South Africa.