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Sometimes When It Rains by Gcina Mhlophe.
Sometimes when it rains I smile to myself And think of times when as a child I’d sit by myself And wonder why people ne…
South Africa poetry African poetry.
South Africa poetry African poetry.
From Come and Hope with Me by Mongane Wally Serote
In that day and in that life we lived in dreams and also in desire we hoped and believed even when the day crushed an…
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Ofay Watcher Looks Back by
I want to look at what happened; That done, As silent as the roots of plants pierce the soil I look at what happened, W…
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Hell, Well, Heaven by Mongane Wally Serote
I do not know where I have been, But Brother, I know I’m coming. I do not know where I have been, But Brother, I know I…
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At Rest From the Grim Place by Arthur Nortje
The sergeant laughs with strong teeth, his jackboots nestle under the springbok horns. Those bayonets are silent, the…
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The Birth Of Shaka by Oswald Mtshali
His baby cry was of a cub tearing the neck of the lioness because he was fatherless. The gods boiled his blood in a cla…
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Ride Upon the Death Chariot by Oswald Mtshali
They rode upon the death chariot to their Golgotha – three vagrants whose papers to be in Caesar’s empire were not in…
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Inside My Zulu Hut by Oswald Mtshali
It is a hive without any bees to build the walls with golden bricks of honey. A cave cluttered with a millstone, cala…