Master Harold … and the Boys | Author Biography
Harold Athol Fugard was born June 11, 1932, in Middleburg, Cape Province, South Africa (and later raised in Port Elizabeth, South Africa), to a father who was English and a mother who was Afrikaner (a white South African descended from Dutch settlers). Fugard described his father as a man "full of pointless, unthought-out prejudices." His mother, " on the other hand, felt "outrage and anger over the injustice of [South African] society"—particularly the system of apartheid that established separate, unequal rights for whites and blacks.
Fugard attended Port Elizabeth Technical College...
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