Rolfes Robert Reginald Dhlomo

RRR Dhlomo (* 1901, † 1971 in South Africa) wrote as a journalist and author in English and Zulu.

His first names are specified with Rolfes Reginald Raymond, Rolfus Robert R., Rolfus Reginald Raymond (: Albert Gérard: Four Africal Literatures London, 1971. ), Reginald Rolfus Robert ( in Janheinz Jahn. Who's Who in African Literature Tübingen, 1972).

Since 1923, he wrote under the name Robbie Reggie, Randite, The pessimist for the Zulu newspaper Ilange lase Natal, 1929-1931 Esq for The Sjambok and in the 1930s as R. Roamer. for Bantu World.

In 1928 he published the first black South African a novel in English ( An African Tragedy of life in the black ghettos of South African cities).

Like his younger brother, who became known as a poet Herbert Isaac Ernest Dhlomo, he used political relations with the African National Congress, other than that, however, the conservative, traditionalist wing. He wrote some fictional biographies of historical Zulu personalities of the three brothers Dingane (1936 ), Shaka (1937) and Mpande (1938 ), grandson Shaka Cetshwayo (1952) and his great-grandson Dinizulu (1968).

Works on German

UShaka. Translated from Zulu original into German and with an afterword by Peter Sulzer. Cologne, 1994. ISBN 3-927620-81-5