Richard Moore Rive (1 March 1931 – 4 June 1989) was a South African writer and academic, who was from Cape Town.
Rive was born on 1 March 1931 in Caledon Street in the working-class Coloured residential area District Six of Cape Town.
In 1963 he was given a scholarship organised by Es'kia Mphahlele, the editor of Drum magazine,[1] in which Rive published some of his early writing.
[3][7] Rive initially published his stories in South African magazines such as Drum and Fighting Talk.
[3] On 23 August 2013, at the Aziz Hassim Literary Awards held in Durban, Rive and two other esteemed South African authors, Ronnie Govender and Don Mattera, were honoured for their contributions to the fight against apartheid through literature.
[9] The authors all reflected on non-racial enclaves in South Africa during that era: Rive focused on District Six, Govender on Cato Manor, and Mattera on Sophiatown.