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Author: Bila, Vonani Publisher: Deep South ISBN: 0987028251 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 98
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Papa, I know it took us twenty years to erect your tombstone All along the wind was blowing you away The sun was burning you Your pillow was your hand But now Bila, Mhlahlandlela, rest in peace Do not open the grave and come home wearing shorts Since you left, your wife has remained in the house I’ve not seen a man sitting on your chair It’s still your house Full of trees and vegetables 7/8 u ya lithanda isaka la mazambani U ya lithanda isaka la mazambani
Author: Bila, Vonani Publisher: Deep South ISBN: 0987028251 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 98
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Papa, I know it took us twenty years to erect your tombstone All along the wind was blowing you away The sun was burning you Your pillow was your hand But now Bila, Mhlahlandlela, rest in peace Do not open the grave and come home wearing shorts Since you left, your wife has remained in the house I’ve not seen a man sitting on your chair It’s still your house Full of trees and vegetables 7/8 u ya lithanda isaka la mazambani U ya lithanda isaka la mazambani
Author: Jane Morris Publisher: African Books Collective ISBN: 0797494537 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 74
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The short stories and poems in this collection were written by students at King George VI School and centre for physically disabled children in Zimbabwes second city, Bulawayo. HIV and AIDS have had a devastating effect on all the communities of Zimbabwe, and those with disabilities have not been exempt from the effects of the virus, as is reflected in many of the pieces in this collection. The book clearly demonstrates both the talent of the students and their concern about the issues facing their community and wider society. Some of the stories and poems tell the stories of their lives, some come straight from their imagination, and some simply speak of their dreams for a better future.
Author: Horwitz, Allan Kolski Publisher: Botsotso Publishing ISBN: 0981420575 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 272
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The Botsotso literary journal started in 1996 as a monthly 4 page insert in the New Nation, an independent anti-apartheid South African weekly and reached over 80,000 people at a time – largely politisized black workers and youth – with a selection of poems, short stories and short essays that reflected the deep changes taking place in the country at that time. Since the closure of the New Nation in 1999, the journal has evolved into a stand-alone compilation featuring the same mix of genres, and with the addition of photo essays and reviews. The Botsotso editorial policy remains committed to creating a mix of voices which highlight the diverse spectrum of South African identities and languages, particularly those that are dedicated to radical expression and examinations of South Africa's complex society. Botsotso 17 reflects the depth and creative range of the South African cultural and emotional environment, as well as the broader social currents in which they were spawned; and that the coexisting phenomena of love and violence, alienation and precious comings-together mingle to create a unique, if familiar, panorama as streams of words reveal the inner meanings of so many different lives.
Author: Bongani Kona Publisher: Jonathan Ball Publishers ISBN: 177619067X Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 266
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'I would get out of the car at every shopping centre and want to ask the stranger walking by with their trolley: "Why are you still shopping? Someone I love has died."' – Dela Gwala Death is a fact of life, but the experience of grief is unique to each of us. This timely collection brings together a range of voices to offer refl ections on death and dying, from individual losses to large scale catastrophes. Karin Schimke revisits her troubled relationship with her late father, a Second World War survivor 'whose brain had been broken by violence'. Madeleine Fullard, the head of South Africa's Missing Persons Task Team, draws us into the search for activists who were 'disappeared' or went missing in political circumstances between 1960 and 1994. Caine Prize winner Lidudumalingani remembers his childhood in a small village in the Eastern Cape, and how his mother always listened to death notices read over the radio as a way of bearing witness to the grief of strangers. The other contributors in this poignant and thought-provoking anthology turn their minds to subjects as varied as the ritual of washing the body of the deceased before burial, the ethics of killing small animals, and the extinction of humankind. In a time of relentless grief, Our Ghosts Were Once People reminds us that one of the small consolations of literature is that all sorrows can be borne. Sindiswa Busuku • Lucienne Bestall • Khadija Patel • Shrikant Peters • Sudirman Adi Makmur • Paula Ihozo Akugizibwe • Rofhiwa Maneta • Madeleine Fullard • Musawenkosi Khanyile • Simone Haysom • Thato Monare • Angifi Dladla • Nick Mulgrew • Tariq Hoosen • Catherine Boulle • Tatamkhulu Afrika • Dela Gwala •Anna Hartford • Gabeba Baderoon • Barry Christianson • Vonani Bila • Khanya Mtshali • Robert Berold
Author: Mapfumo Clement Chihota Publisher: ISBN: 9781838048082 Category : Languages : en Pages : 66
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Mapfumo Clement Chihota is a Zimbabwean poet and short-story writer. His creative works have been published Zimbabwe, South Africa, the USA and the United Kingdom in anthologies or journals such as No More Plastic Balls and other Stories (co-edited with Robert Muponde); Writing Still; Writing Now; New Coin Poetry; Tripwire Journal of Poetics; The Warwick Reviewand Where to Now? Short Stories from Zimbabwe. Mapfumo currently teaches into Community and Human Services programs at Federation University in Melbourne, Australia. The collection Before the Next Song and other Poems was initially published by Mambo Press Publishers in 1999. It has been used as an 'A level' literature set book in Zimbabwean secondary schools.
Author: Moses Nzama Khaizen Mtileni Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 9781450051439 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 76
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"When rumbling guns spit fiery bullets of death A brutal echo of pronounced confused wrath And we scatter across jungles and navigate the intricacies of imposed exile It is for the fatherland that our blood is spilled" --Miyela N'wananga "If only your world and mine could meet And blaze tributary crossings of waters cool and sweet And flowing streams demanding the dexterity of swim And flow like a river and compose song with nature" --Me and You Newspeople took pictures and scribbled Your life consumed by flames At Ramaphosa informal settlement --Ernesto When the moon goes to rest is a collection of poetry, quiet and loud- an attempt at capturing the gains and pains of living!
Author: Rampolokeng, Lesego Publisher: Deep South ISBN: 1928476309 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 128
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Born in Orlando West, Soweto, in Johannesburg, Lesego Rampolokeng is a poet, novelist, playwright, filmmaker and writing teacher who rose to prominence in the 1980s, a turbulent period in South Africa’s history. Originally published in 1999, The Bavino Sermons includes such memorable poems as ‘Lines for Vincent’, ‘Riding the victim train’, ‘To Gil Scott-Heron’, ‘Crab attack’,‘Rap Ranting’ and ‘The Fela Sermon’.
Author: Mupotsa, Danai Publisher: Impepho Press ISBN: 0639946518 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 86
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DANAI MUPOTSA was born in Harare, and has lived in Botswana, the United States and South Africa where she is now based. She describes herself as a teacher and writer. Feeling and Ugly was largely written between 2016 and 2018, although some of the poems were written earlier or previously published in some form. The collection gathers the various statuses and locations she moves across, as daughter, mother, teacher, scholar and writer. From these places, many of the poems try to approach difficult feelings about what it means to “do politics” from an empathetic complexity. “I’m raging, sometimes that makes me petty” is one such example. The collection carries a set of standpoints, or willfulness about pedagogy, politics and optimism. And while she carries an attachment to a non-reparative, or negative affect across the collection, she closes in describing the work, or all of her work, as love poems. This collection is a long love letter to those who are wilful.
Author: Mohale, Maneo Publisher: uHlanga ISBN: 0639810829 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 68
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dear reader, are you still there? take a second, now. breathe // with me. In one of the most anticipated debut collections of recent years, Maneo Mohale reckons boldly with the experience of – and the reconstruction of a life after – a sexual assault. Mohale’s unapologetic and disarming voice carries through a budding and blooming garden of poetics, rooted in a contemporary southern African tradition, but springing forth in queer and radical new directions. Indeed, this is a work encompassing the full, often contradictory, and seldom complete process of healing: where relations must be chosen as well as made; where time becomes non-linear and language insufficient; where nothing is what it seems, yet everything is what it is.
Author: Jijana, Thabo Publisher: uHlanga ISBN: 0620676930 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 68
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In a whirlwind of local history, contemporary culture, domestic angst, and nostalgia, Thabo Jijana’s debut collection of award-winning poems exhibits an emotional wisdom beyond the writer’s years. Earthen and edgy, musical and minimal, Failing Maths and My Other Crimes is not solely a meditation on family and mortality, nor just a manifesto on the role of art in a young man’s life: beyond all, this collection is a short masterclass in South African storytelling-in-verse.
Author: Bila, Vonani
Author: Bila, Vonani
Author: Jane Morris
Author: Horwitz, Allan Kolski
Author: Bongani Kona
Author: Mapfumo Clement Chihota
Author: Moses Nzama Khaizen Mtileni
Author: Rampolokeng, Lesego
Author: Mupotsa, Danai
Author: Mohale, Maneo
Author: Jijana, Thabo