THE RICH MAN OF PIETERMARITZBURG, translated by Sandile Ngidi

200pp., paperback, First English Language Edition, Wiltshire, 2008 First published in 1961 in isiZulu as Inkinsela Yase Mgungundlovu. A urban swindler dupes a local in a rural village into a deceitful partnership by promising untold riches. Zulu novelist, poet and scholar Sibusiso Nyembezi (1919-2000) taught African Languages at the University College of Fort Hare, before resigning in 1959 in protest against the racially divisive policies enforced by the apartheid government. He later worked as an editor for a publishing company in Pietermaritzburg.