Alf Wannenburgh is a South African writer and journalist.

Alf Wannenburgh studied at the University of Cape Town

University of Cape Town

The University of Cape Town is a public research university located in Cape Town in the Western Cape province of South Africa. UCT was founded in 1829 as the South African College, and is the oldest university in South Africa and the second oldest extant university in Africa.-History:The roots of...

. He worked as a land-surveyor's assistant, salesman, clerk and window-dresser. Associated with the Sophiatown Renaissance, Wannenburgh remained in South Africa in the early 1960s rather than going into exile. A close friend of Richard Rive

Richard Rive

-Biography:Rive was born on 1 March 1931 in Caledon Street in the working-class coloured District Six of Cape Town.His father was African, and his mother was coloured, and Rive was given the latter classification under apartheid...

 at this time, he contributed stories to anthologies edited by Rive for Heinemann's African Writers Series

African Writers Series

African Writers Series is a series of books by African writers which has been published by Heinemann since 1962. The series has been a vehicle for some of the most important African writers, ensuring an international voice to literary masters including Chinua Achebe, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Steve Biko,...

: the short story anthology Quartet (1963) and the prose anthology Modern African Prose (1964). He later wrote about the Southern African landscape and Kalahari bushmen, collaborating with photographers on books of documentary photojournalism for which he provided the text.

Works

• 'Awendgesang', 'Echoes', 'The snake pit' and 'Debut'. Stories in Richard Rive, ed,, Quartet: New voices from South Africa, Heinemann Educational Books, 1963. African Writers Series
  African Writers Series
  African Writers Series is a series of books by African writers which has been published by Heinemann since 1962. The series has been a vehicle for some of the most important African writers, ensuring an international voice to literary masters including Chinua Achebe, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Steve Biko,...
  
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• 'Echoes', in Rive, ed., Modern African Prose, Heinemann Educational Books, 1964. African Writers Series
  African Writers Series
  African Writers Series is a series of books by African writers which has been published by Heinemann since 1962. The series has been a vehicle for some of the most important African writers, ensuring an international voice to literary masters including Chinua Achebe, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Steve Biko,...
  
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• Rhodesian legacy, Cape Town : C. Struik, 1978. (Text by Wannenburgh; photography by Ian Murphy)
• The Bushmen. Country Life Books, London 1979. ISBN 0-60031575-4 (Text by Wannenburgh; photography by Peter Johnson and Anthony Bannister)
• Forgotten frontiersmen, 1980.
• The natural wonder of southern Africa, Cape Town : C. Struik Publishers, 1984. (Text by Wannenburgh; photography by J. R. Dickson)
• The world of shooting, 1987. (Text by Wannenburgh; photography by Peter Johnson)
• Diamond people, 1990. (Text by Wannenburgh; photography by Peter Johnson)

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