The Sestigers (Sixtiers), also known as the Beweging van Sestig[1][2] (the movement of sixty), were a group of influential Afrikaans-language writers in the 1960s started by André Brink and Breyten Breytenbach, which also included Etienne Leroux, Jan Rabie, Ingrid Jonker, Adam Small, Bartho Smit, Chris Barnard, Hennie Aucamp, Dolf van Niekerk, Abraham H. de Vries and Elsa Joubert[3].