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South African author, journalist, and songwriter of Afrikaner descent

Rian Malan is a South African author, journalist, documentarist and songwriter of Afrikaner descent.

He first rose to prominence as the author of the memoir My Traitor's Heart (1990), which, like the bulk of his work, deals with South African society in a historical and contemporary perspective and focuses on racial relations.

As a journalist, he has written for major newspapers in South Africa, Britain and the United States.

Personal background

Malan grew up in a middle-class and pro-apartheid Afrikaner family in a white suburb of Johannesburg.

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He attended Blairgowrie Primary School in Randburg where one of his contemporaries was the columnist, Jani Allan. He then attended Woodmead School, South Africa's first non-racially based high school. He has described how, as a teenager, he formed a rock band that associated with black artists and wanted to rebel against the apartheid system, at a t