South African Personalities and Places - Bernard Sachs

Signed by the legendary Author Bernard Sachs - his older brother was the trade unionist Solly Sachs, the father of Albie Sachs  .

South African Personalities and Places - Bernard Sachs

Binding: Hardcover with dust jacket
Pages: 208: Publisher: Kayor Publishers (1959)

Condition: Very Good. This book is in very good condition. The DJ has some limited signs of wear and tear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. The book is protected with a Cellophane cover.

Mr Sachs gives us new insights into the characters he delineates. His handling of well-known landmarks, such as City Hall Steps, the Gaiety Cafe, Malay Camp and many others, are evocative of an interesting past that still stirs nostalgic longings. There is also a fine study of the City of Capetown.

The books speaks the language of the Rand, and I doubt whether any other writer has caught more than the faintest murmur of it. They are solid credentials. Mr Sachs not only writes well but with humour and warmth.

• Born in in Kamai, Lithuania to Abraham Saks and Hannah Rivkin and, his parents having emigrated to South Africa, he was educated at Jeppe High School in Johannesburg. His elder brother was trade unionist Solly Sachs, the father of Albie Sachs.

  Contribution to South African arts and literature
  Became a journalist and leader writer for the South African Jewish Times and was the founding editor of the South African Opinion and later of Trek - both influential and opinion-forming publications, particularly on cultural matters. He was also a biographer of prominent South Africans, particularly of Herman Charles Bosman, whom he knew well. Works include his novel, The Utmost Sail (1955) which is based on the life of Bosman, South African Personalities and Places (Kayor Publishers, 1959), The road to Sharpeville (Johannesburg : Dial Press ; New York : Liberty Book Club, 1961), Personalities and places: second series (Johannesburg, Dial Press, 1965) and Mist of Memory : an autobiography (London : Vallentine/Mitchell, 1973).