Awards
- 1978 - We Shall sing for the Fatherland received a special merit award in the first Amstel Playwright of the Year Award of South Africa
- 1979 - The Hill won an Amstel Playwright of the Year Award
- 1997 - Ways of Dying won the M-Net Book Prize, South Africa
- 2001 - The Heart of Redness won the Commonwealth Writers Prize: Africa, the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and the Sunday Times Fiction Prize
- 2004 - "The Madonna of Excelsior" was selected as one of the Top Ten South African Books Published in the Decade of Democracy
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