Characterization, being an intrinsic aspect of novel production, helps to express ideas, and contributes to a series of events forming a spectacle in narrative as if it were in real life. Therefore, this study seeks to explore the process of character development thanks to Alex La Guma, Nadine Gordimer and Peter Abrahams‟ writing talents. These South African Apartheid novelists shed light on the prevailing human condition under racial discrimination by employing characters that either lead actions or answer back actions. They are defined according to their nature, their personality, their function and psychology. To this extent, critics like Bernth Lindfors and Vincent Jouve bring to light the political prejudice occasioned by the oppressor, which is a source of awareness and socio-political disrupt within the society embodied by verisimilitude