Nat Nakasa

Nat Nakasa was born on 12 May 1937 and grew up near Durban, in Chesterville. He began at the newspaper Ilanga lase Natal, then moved to Johannesburg, where he joined Drum in 1957 and became the first Black columnist of the Rand Daily Mail. In 1963 he founded the literary magazine The Classic. Admitted as a Nieman fellow at Harvard but denied a passport, he left in 1964 on an exit permit that forbade his return. He died in New York on 14 July 1965, aged twenty-eight; his remains were repatriated in 2014 and buried in Chesterville.

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• NarrativeThe World of Nat NakasaNat Nakasa · 1975Literature