Barry Ronge, former arts editor of the Sunday Times, passed away peacefully at the age of 74 in the arms of his life partner, Albertus van Dyk, on July 3.
in Johannesburg, teaching both English and Afrikaans, followed by a 10-year stint as a lecturer in literature at the University of the Witwatersrand.
As a journalist specialising in the arts, he commented on contemporary literature, theatre, dance, culture and film for over three decades, often helping to catapult SA performers’ careers.In the late 1980s he was the food critic for the now-defunct Sunday Times Metro supplement, writing, and was Sandton Living magazine’s feared food critic under the pseudonym Ms Rebecca Parker.From 1994/95, he wrote a weekly column in the Star Tonight! Arts supplement, Ronge’s Writes.
In 2014 he was awarded a Special Lifetime Achievement Award by The Sunday Times honouring his contribution to SA’s Cultural Life and in 2015 the Sunday Times announced that the Fiction Prize would be known as the Barry Ronge Fiction Prize. He published Spit ‘n Polish, a collection of his Sunday Times columns, in 2006 and More Spit ‘n Polish — the recent past in 2007.At one of his book launches he thanked his partner Van Dyk “whose inspiration never dried up when mine so often did. Albertus, half of the ideas come from you, all the inspiration too. There’s not much I could do without you. Thank you for such great light and joy for so many years”.
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