RRR Dhlomo

RRR Dhlomo (* 1901 ; † 1971 in South Africa ) was a South African journalist and author who wrote in English and Zulu . His first names are given as Rolfes Reginald Raymond , Rolfus Robert R. , Rolfus Reginald Raymond (in: Albert Gérard: Four Africal Literatures. London, 1971), Reginald Rolfus Robert (in Janheinz Jahn: Who's Who in African Literature. Tübingen, 1972) .

From 1923 he wrote under the names Robbie Reggie , Randite , The Pessimist for the Zulu newspaper Ilange lase Natal , between 1929 and 1931 for The Sjambok and in the 1930s as R. Roamer Esq. for The Bantu World .

In 1928 he was the first black man in South Africa to publish a novel in English (An African Tragedy) about life in the black ghettos of South African cities.

Like his younger brother, Herbert Isaac Ernest Dhlomo , who became known as a poet , he maintained political relations with the African National Congress , but unlike the latter with the conservative, traditionalist wing. He wrote some novel-like biographies about historical Zulu personalities, about the three brothers Dingane (1936), Shaka (1937) and Mpande (1938), Shaka's grandson Cetshwayo (1952) and his great-grandson Dinizulu (1968).

Works in German

UShaka . Translated from the Zulu original into German and with an afterword by Peter Sulzer. Cologne 1994. ISBN 3-927620-81-5 .