During a subsequent visit to his native South Africa, Campbell was first enthusiastically received. However, he then courted outrage in the literary magazine "Voorslag" by accusing his fellow White South Africans of racism, parasitism, and cultural backwardness as well as calling for granting racial equality to Black South Africans. In response, Campbell lost his job as editor and was subjected to social ostracism, even by his own family. Before returning to England with his family, Campbell retaliated by writing "The Wayzgoose", a mock epic in the style of Alexander Pope and John Dryden, which skewered the racism and cultural backwardness of Colonial South Africa.