 Van Wyk died in Johannesburg on 3 October 2014.During the literary explosion among black writers that followed the Soweto uprising in 1976 van Wyk published a volume of poetry, "It Is Time to Go Home" (1979), that won the 1980 Olive Schreiner Prize.The book is characterized by the preoccupations of other Soweto poets such as Mongane Serote, Sipho Sepamla, and Mafika Gwala and employs the language of defiance and assertion in poetry that reveals at all times the Black Consciousness of the era.