Education
Hutchinson went to Swedish missionary school, graduated from Street Peter"s College in Johannesburg and received his Bachelor from the University of Fort Hare.
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Alfred Hutchinson
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He was classified as coloured by the apartheid government, but saw himself as an African and dismissed the coloureds" struggle to be seen as a distinct people. In 1956 he was charged with high treason, and fled to Britain via East Africa and Ghana. His autobiography Road to Ghana (1960) is about this experience.
In 1964 he published the play The Rain Killers.
Membership
He worked as a teacher, but was a member of the African National Congress, and was sacked and jailed for two weeks in 1952 for his struggle against apartheid.
