Achmat dangor biography of george

Achmat Dangor, an award winning novelist and poet,  was born in Newclare, Johannesburg, Transvaal (now known as Gauteng), South Africa in He lived with his grandmother in Fordsburg, Johannesburg, where he grew up.

He completed his secondary education at the Fordsburg Indian High School.

He joined the Labour Party Youth, a group of radical young people who were opposed to the sectarian politics of the Coloured Labour Party. Dangor, together with other radical youth such as Farouk Asvat and Chris van Wyk, joined “Black Thoughts” a cultural group, formed in , under the leadership of writer and poet, Don Mattera.

This group performed at community functions and schools, reading poetry and performing plays. 

He was active in several writers’ bodies advocating the end of segregation such as Black Thoughts, the Writers’ Forum and the Congress of South African Writers (COSAW), of which he was a co-founding member. 

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