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  • "There we are," he said, "Little Bonsa understand bodily needs," and he pointed to a fat buck of the sort that in South Africa is called Duiker, which his keen eyes had discovered in its form against a stone where it now lay shot through the head and dying.

    A Yellow God: an Idol of Africa Henry Rider Haggard 1890

  • This surprise sighting – I learn later the gazelle is a Red Duiker – is followed moments later by a family of vervet monkeys chatting high in the treetops, feasting on fruit and playing monkey games in the branches overhead.

    'It is clear these beautiful animals are as curious about us as we are about them' 2011

  • Botes recently won the Afrikaans category of the K Sello Duiker Memorial Literary award for her novel, Thula-thula, which tackles child abuse and incest.

    I don't like black people, says South African novelist David Smith in Johannesburg 2010

  • This volume returns us to the continent of Genabackis and many of the series' signature characters, such as Anomander Rake, Duiker, Kruppe, Iskaral Pust and, it is rumoured, Caladan Brood, the Warlord.

    Archive 2008-02-01 Adam Whitehead 2008

  • This volume returns us to the continent of Genabackis and many of the series' signature characters, such as Anomander Rake, Duiker, Kruppe, Iskaral Pust and, it is rumoured, Caladan Brood, the Warlord.

    Coming Soon: A Dance with Dragons and some other works Adam Whitehead 2008

  • "He represents an important literary bridge between 'struggle-fiction' and what comes next," says Duiker.

    Beyond The 'A' Word 2007

  • Duiker inherited his love for reading from his mother, which marked the early start of what became an illustrious writing career.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2005

  • Duiker was found hanged in Northcliff, Johannesburg on

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2005

  • Duiker was born in Soweto where he spent most of his childhood before moving to East London.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2005

  • At the time of his death Duiker had been writing a third novel, his family said.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2005

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