The great South African playwright

The atol of the player, who died at the age of 92, was widely recognized as one of the largest playwrights of South Africa.

The son of his mother -frickan, he was most famous for his politically charged plays, challenging the racist system of apartheid.

Paying a tribute to the Minister of Arts and Culture, South Africa’s Arts, Gaetan McKenzie, came up with it as “a fearless narrator who laid the cruel realities of apartheid through his plays.”

“We were damned apartheid, but blessed the beautiful artists who illuminated its impact and helped to bring us out of it. We owe a huge debt to this deceased,” McKenzi added.

Fugard wrote more than 30 performances in a career that covered 70 years, making his mark with a blood knot in 1961.

It was the first play in South Africa with a black -white actor – a hug himself – acting in front of the multi -tale audience, before the apartheid regime introduced laws that prohibit mixed roles and spectators.

The blood knot catapult on the international stage – with a performance shown in the USA and adapted for British television.

Later, the apartheid regime confiscated the passport, but strengthened the determination of the honor to continue to violate the racial barriers and put the injustice of the apartheid.

He continued to work with the players of the snake, a group of black actors, and performed in black towns, despite the persecution of the security forces of the apartheid regime.

The famous games of the hog were Bosman and Lena, who considered the difficult circumstances of the mixed couple. After the premiere in 1969, he was shot in 2000 with Danny Glover and Angela Basset.

His novel “Tosie” was made into the film, winning the 2006 Oscar for the best film about a foreign language.

Western Cape Prime Minister Alan Wind said that the playgard had “penetration, sharp savvy” and his “sharp understanding of our country’s political and cultural makeup.”

“It will be very missed,” Wind added.

Other famous plays include Banzi’s Sachi, which is dead, and the island he wrote with the actors John Horse and Winston Ntshon, in a powerful condemnation of Robben’s island, where the icon against apartheid Nelson Mandela was imprisoned.

In a simple tribute on X, the horse stated: “I am deeply upset by the passage of my dear friend Atola. Let his soul rest in the eternal peace.”

Fugard won several awards for his work and received honor for prestigious Tony Awards in 2011, while Time called it in 1985 as the greatest active playwright in the English -speaking world.

“The apartheid identified me, it is really so … But I am proud of the work that came out of it, which bears my name,” AFP Fugard said in 1995.

Fugard was afraid that the end of the apartheid in 1994 could leave it little, but he still found enough writing materials.

In an interview with the BBC in 2010, he said he had shared his view of the late Archbishop Desmond Tutu that “we lost the way” as a nation.

“I think the current society in South Africa needs a vigilance of writers, every time, as the old one.

“It is the responsibility that young writers, playwrights, should really wake up and understand that responsibility is them, as well, and many other writers in previous years.”

Additional BBC Eletra Nesmith report.