Craig Higginson was born in Harare , Zimbabwe , in 1971 ( formerly Salisbury , Rhodesia ) . Due to the escalating situation during the Rhodesian Bush War , he moved with his mother and sister to Johannesburg in 1976 , the year of the Soweto Uprisings . At the age of ten , he attended boarding school in KwaZulu-Natal at Clifton Nottingham Road and Michaelhouse . The Midlands landscape would later feature strongly in his novels and plays . In 1990 , in the weeks that saw the release of Nelson Mandela from prison and the unbanning of the African National Congress , Higginson went to the University of the Witwatersrand to study Fine Art , but he later moved to a BA ( Honors ) in English and European Literature . In 1995 , he worked as the Assistant to the director Barney Simon at the Market Theatre . Following Simon 's death , he moved to England , where he would remain for ten years . There he worked at the Young Vic Theatre with Tim Supple and at the Royal Shakespeare Company with Michael Attenborough . He was also a theatre critic for some years at '' Time Out '' magazine . He published his first novel , '' Embodied Laughter '' , at the age of twenty-six in South Africa and England and adapted '' Laughter in the Dark '' for the Royal Shakespeare Company and BBC Radio 3 shortly afterwards . He returned to live and work in South Africa in 2004 . Since then Higginson has taught at the University of the Witwatersrand and been the Literary Manager of the Market Theatre . He has published several novels and plays and worked in South African television as a writer . Craig currently works as the Script Editor on the popular South African drama series , Rhythm City He has a MA in Creative Writing and lives in Johannesburg
Soweto Uprisings
Soweto uprising
Craig Higginson