Maphumulo, Abednego Mandlenkosi.Khumalo, Ellie.2010-10-202010-10-2020072007http://hdl.handle.net/10413/1448Thesis (Ph.D.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 2007.The study addresses the reasons why Buthelezi is regarded as a post-apartheid writer. Among other reasons that are discussed in this study is that in his novels, he touches on some of the issues that were not dealt with in the apartheid period. It also looks at the didactic elements that are conveyed in Buthelezi's novels as far as the post-apartheid period is concerned. Advantages and disadvantages of the post-apartheid period to South Africans are also examined, one of the very important disadvantages being the loss of the spirit of ubuntu among the African people while they try to move on with times.enButhelezi, J. C.--Criticism and interpretation.Zulu fiction--History and criticism.Zulu literature--History and criticism.Theses--IsiZulu.Thesis