Alf Wannenburgh

Who is Alf Wannenburgh?

Alfred John Wannenburgh is a South African writer and journalist. Wannenburgh attended RBHS and later studied at the University of Cape Town. He worked as a land-surveyor's assistant, salesman, clerk and window-dresser in his university days. Associated with the Sophiatown Renaissance, Wannenburgh remained in South Africa in the early 1960s rather than going into exile. A close friend of Richard Rive at this time, he contributed stories to anthologies edited by Rive for Heinemann's African Writers Series: the short story anthology Quartet and the prose anthology Modern African Prose. He later wrote about the Southern African landscape and Kalahari Bushmen, collaborating with photographers on books of documentary photojournalism for which he provided the text.He then wrote Forgotten frontiersmen which covered the history and various events of the Griqua people .In 1987 he wrote world of shooting, a detailed account of the history, conservation and contributions given towards the sustainability of the land providing the venues of the most prestigious shoots around the world .