Notes

Kennis van die Aand references the 1973 novel by Andre P Brink. It tells the story of Josef Malan, a coloured man who kills his white lover, Jessica Thomson, because he sees no future for their relationship under the National Party government’s Immorality Act, which prohibited inter-racial relationships or ‘marriage across the colour bar’. The novel was a landmark in the history of censorship in South Africa, after being banned in 1974. The ban was lifted in 1982 when the English translation of the novel was published and approved by the Publications Control Board, but with an age restriction of 18.