Expanding on the Apartheid-era themes of blackness and whiteness, Duiker incorporates elements of sexual identity. Two months after his release in 2000, he wrote the novella Thirteen Cents. However, after enrolling at University of Cape Town, Duiker began taking drugs and was expelled and institutionalised at a psychiatric hospital. At Rhodes Duiker collaborated with other poets in starting Seeds poetry society and earned a degree in journalism.ĭuring these years, he worked in advertising and wrote scripts for the television show Backstage. He also studied at Huntington School in England, before attending Rhodes University in Grahamstown to study journalism and art history. In high school during Apartheid at the elite Redhill School, Duiker was one of two black students and expressed his awareness of his country’s political climate. Son of soccer player Judah Duiker, Duiker was born into a family that was educated and somewhat wealthy. South African novelist and screenwriter Kabello “Sello” Duiker, best known for his novel The Quiet Violence of Dreams, was born in Orlando, Soweto, South Africa.
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