How did William Plomer address race relations in Turbott Wolfe?

In his 1925 novel Turbott Wolfe, William Plomer addressed race relations by challenging the prevailing social norms of his time, which ultimately sparked public scandal.1

He confronted the issue of miscegenation and explicitly criticized the widely held belief in the benevolence of white people toward Black people. Furthermore, Plomer subverted traditional literary portrayals by casting certain white characters as villains, a move that directly confronted the racial hierarchies and prejudices embedded in South African society. His work was part of a broader effort to expose and condemn the racism he observed, a mission he later continued through the magazine Voorslag ("Whiplash"), which he co-founded to excoriate the racist structure of the country.1