“Three generations of white South African men were bound together at that table. Vermuelen was the first generation. He defined Africa, made it safe for Basson to defile. I was the last generation, the last to grow up in segregated neighborhoods. Between us was the silent photograph of Wouter Basson. Like a distant father, Basson was absent at the dining table.” – Henk Rossouw (Hole in the White ‘Hood). Also Mahmood Mamdani on Bantu Education at UCT, Gael Reagon on sisterhood, Binyavanga Wainaina on dis-covering Kenya, Gaston Zossou on African intellectuals and more…
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Strange Fruit by Lewis Allen
5: Poetry (Botsotso Publishing, 2001)
This collection includes poems by Kobus Moolman, Mphutlane wa Bofelo, Clinton du Plessis, Gillian Schutte and Lionel Murcott – another ‘unholy’ assemblage of voices and hands and thoughts.
All five have since matured and continued to publish but these relatively early examples of their work certainly show how well formed they were and that subsequent work has been a relatively natural progression.