During the 1950s, '60s, and '70s, Uys Krige served as a mentor and father figure to Cape Town's racially mixed literary bohemia, which gathered in the beach-side suburb of Clifton. Due in large part to Krige's influence, membership in both literary bohemia and in the literary movement known as "Die Sestigers" ("The Writers of the Sixties") became synonymous with public opposition to both the National Party and Apartheid.