Rich Man of Pietermaritzburg (Heftet (myke permer))

Sibusiso Nymebezi (1919-2000) was born in Babanango, South Africa, and is known as a Zulu novelist, poet, scholar, teacher and editor. He received a B.A. from the University of South Africa in 1946, and his B.A. Honours in 1947 from the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. From 1948 to 1953, Nyembezi was a lecturer in the Department of Bantu Studies, at the University of Witwatersrand, teaching Zulu and Xhosa. He took an M.A. at Wits in 1954 and the next year was appointed to the lecturing staff at the University College of Fort Hare, remaining there until 1959 when he resigned in protest against the restrictive new policies being enforced at Fort Hare by the government. He took an editorial job with the publishers Shuter and Shooter in Pietermaritzburg, where he stayed until he retired.

This is a charming tale about an elegant and smooth-talking city trickster who invites himself to a village in the rural hinterland of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa, as some kind of modern-day Moses sent to save the downtrodden from poverty. This classic of Zulu literature, first published in 1961, celebrates rural black life for its integrated communal spirit, indomitable stoicism and naive innocence.