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    (Afrikaanse Letterkundevereniging, 2004) Van Aardt, Peet
    This article deals with the letter-correspondence between Jan Rabie and Etienne Leroux during the late 1950s. This was the beginning of a period in which many liberal Afrikaans writers, like André P. Brink, Breyten Breytenbach, Ingrid Jonker, John Miles, Rabie and Leroux, wrote literature of protest against Apartheid and Afrikaner Nationalism. Around this time the significant "Sestiger"-movement was born. Laws of censorship and the banning of literature were implemented by the government, which infuriated a lot of artists. Rabie and Leroux constantly wrote each other, discussing the role of the writer in South Africa. I took these letters, which form part of the Etienne Leroux collection at the University of the Free State and the Jan Rabie collection in the J.S. Gericke library at the University of Stellenbosch, arranged them chronologically, and annotated the references - the result being a contextualised document about the opinions and concerns of two important South African writers.