Author: Ndalo Mbombo

By Andrew Martin  Harold Athol Lanigan Fugard was born 11 June 1932 in Middelburg in the Eastern Cape. In 1935, his family moved to Port Elizabeth, where he was raised and educated. From 1950, he studied philosophy and social anthropology at the University of Cape Town but left in 1953, a few months before he would have written his final examinations. He and a friend hitchhiked through Africa and spent two years in East Asia on a steamer ship, the SS Graigaur. On his return to South Africa, he worked various jobs in Johannesburg before focusing on theatre as a director. Fugard was arguably one of…