CROSS OF GOLD

280pp., paperback, Reprint, Johannesburg, (1981) 2024

South African novelist Lauretta Ngcobo's portrayal of black life in South Africa after the Sharpeville massacre of 1960.

Includes afterword by Barbara Boswell. 

Lauretta Ngcobo (1931-2015) spent over 30 years in exile, living in Swaziland, Zambia and England, before returing to South Africa after the first democratic election in 1994. She was a member of the KwaZulu-Natal legislature for 10 years, before retiring in 2008. She is the author of the novel And They Didn't Die and editor of the essay collections Let it Be Told: Black women writers in Britain and Prodigal Daughters: Stories of women in exile.