Rive was born on 1 March 1931 in Caledon Street in the working-class coloured District Six of Cape Town.
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In 1963 he was given a scholarship organised by the editor of Drum magazine, Es'kia Mphahlele.
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Rive went to St Mark's Primary School and Trafalgar High School, both in District Six, and then to Hewat College of Education in Athlone, where he qualified as a teacher.
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