South Africa's First Black Woman Novelist Miriam Tlali Dies

The legendary author and activist was the first black South African woman to publish a novel in English. She is best known for her book Muriel at Metropolitan. Most of her writing was originally banned by the South African apartheid regime.

Miriam Tlali.

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