Adam Small dies at 79
Highly regarded academic, poet, and writer Adam Small has died at the age of 79, according to media reports on Saturday.
According to the City of Cape Town’s civic honours book, Small was treasured for his mostly Afrikaans works that highlighted the lives and oppression of the working class under the apartheid regime.
Born in Wellington in the Western Cape on December 21, 1936, he was raised on a farm in Goree, outside Robertson, where his father was the school principal, community leader, and lay preacher to farm labourers.
"His family moved to Retreat on the Cape Flats where Adam discovered the Kaaps vernacular that characterises his writing," it said.