My jeug ,grootste deel van my lewe is ongemerk, ongetwyfeld daarmee heen… Ouderdom, met skewe, sukkelstap , is ‘gegewe.. Onsigbaar vir ander, help nie om te ween, ru, gevoellloos uit die p...
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My first memory of Indians [From India] , is when I was only six years old . There was a pretty street on the edge of the main business centre, CBD, behind the town hall, a beautiful, white building p...
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And so we survived the winter once more.. Spring is showing her erratic face again as she appears sunny,smiling just to hide, or is overwhelmed by winter’s wind: warning refrain.. Weary we wait ...
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I stared at the woman in front of me in utter amazement. Her name was Sarah , but she was black, Like so many of the non-whites born in SA before ’94, she was given a “white” name as...
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Why poetry? I did not choose the genre (poetry), it chose me. It is a clche, but it is what it is! I find poetry an easy way to express what I see , feel and think on so many levels. I don’t hav...
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Yes, his name was Piet K….., we never questioned it, but my father said that was his family name for generations. He was a short, wiry very black man.Piet was also a kind,patient man and we all ...
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Friday afternoon.. For some reason my father always came home early on a Friday. We all washed and dressed in ‘town’ clothes, then waited for him. We went to town to get books from the lib...
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I hear echoing sounds of music from afar… A plaintive ,soulful song sung by some stranger, maybe a rising star? Then it fades, ending on a sad sigh.. The song, a tentatively distant dream I trea...
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It is Saturday afternoon in late summer. The heat is intense, making the the though of autumn, winter extremely unreal. I am seven years old and l can now climb tne huge apricot tree. The luchious,...
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In the silent street,so cold and dark I hold him close,wrapped up tightly.. Bare branches of naked trees so stark against the sky, the stars glittering brightly.. I know they will raise him, teach him...
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