A number of South Africans from diverse backgrounds across the spectrum have uttered some unforgettable words over the years. Image: The Fugard Theatre

The South African Quote of the Day – Athol Fugard

A number of South Africans from diverse backgrounds across the spectrum have uttered some unforgettable words over the years.

by Garrin Lambley

05-12-2022 08:17

in Offbeat

A number of South Africans from diverse backgrounds across the spectrum have uttered some unforgettable words over the years. Image: The Fugard Theatre

A number of South Africans from diverse backgrounds across the spectrum have uttered some meaningful words over the years.

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Athol Fugard, Hon. FRSL, OIS, is a South African playwright, novelist, actor, and director widely regarded as South Africa’s greatest playwright.

He is best known for his political and penetrating plays opposing the system of apartheid and for the 2005 Oscar-winning film of his novel Tsotsi, directed by Gavin Hood.

Fugard was honoured in Cape Town with the opening of the Fugard Theatre in District Six in 2010, and received a Tony Award for lifetime achievement in 2011.

He was born on 11 June 1932.

Fugard said: “All of my life had been spent in the shadow of apartheid. And when South Africa went through its extraordinary change in 1994, it was like having spent a lifetime in a boxing ring with an opponent and suddenly finding yourself in that boxing ring with nobody else and realising you’ve to take the gloves off and get out, and reinvent yourself.”