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My Land - Tswagare Namane
Copyright © 2010 by Tswagare Namane.
Library of Congress Control Number: 2010912850
ISBN:Hardcover 978-1-4535-6801-9
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CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
THINK OF ME
POST BURGLARY STRESS SYNDROME
THE GRIPENS ARE HERE
SWEET REMINDER
A FIERCE STORM
BEING WITH YOU
TSUNAMI
FALSE CIVILIZATION
A BEQUEST
ETERNALLY BLUE
UPON A CHRISTMAS WALK IN MAFIKENG
HOLIDAYING IN THE CAPE
IN THE SHADOW OF OOM PAUL (Church Square—Pretoria)
A YELLOW MOON SMILES AT ME
A DANGEROUS SONG
RUDE REMINDER
IMPROVISATION
CLAIMING THE LOST HERITAGE
TAXI IN A JAM
FREE JAZZ
FULFILMENT
UPON THE FIRST RAINS
DRIVEN TO WALK THE WALK
THE TRAVEL BLUES
DOWNTOWN JOBURG
TSHWANE
TOWARDS DIVINITY
A FORCED EQUALITY
THE MINIBUS TAXI
A COMMUTER’S NIGHTMARE
FELINE LANDSCAPE
A HOLIDAY IN KWAZULU-NATAL
BRACING FOR THE NEW YEAR
2006
LONG DISTANCE TRAVEL
BEFORE THE MIGHTY GRIP OF BOREDOM
SONG BY THE FIRESIDE
MY BAREST MINIMUMS
GOD—Fact or Fiction
A COMMON THREAD BINDS US ALL
HILLBROW
THOUGHTS OF YOU
LOVED YOU
TO MY LOVE UPON ANOTHER VALENTINE’S
A TIT FOR TAT
CHARLES TAYLOR
HEARTBURN
RECONCILIATION’S INSTINCT
LOVE AD INFINITUM
JOY AT REDISCOVERY
UPON THE WINTER SOLSTICE
COCKTAIL OF PLAQUES
RWANDESE ORDEAL RELIVED (On Watching the History Channel)
THE OLD SA
HORRIFIC ACTS
TOWARDS BELABELA (Warmbad)
MOKOPANE (Potgietersrust)
POLOKWANE CITY (Pietersburg)
GAMBLERS WE ARE
BECAUSE OF THE STRONG WOMEN AROUND US
TRUTH
THE AFRICAN
ENTER THE SOMALI MAN
EPIPHANY
TO PHILLIP KGOSANA UPON HIS 70TH
OMPHEMETSE DISIPI (Director—North West Film Festival)
MADONNA & THE AFRICAN CHILD (Superstar Adopts Little Banda)
FIRST RAINS
RAIN WAS HERE
BAYETE JABU KHANYILE
THE TRIAL OF HUSSEIN IS NOW A FARCE
ELUSIVE GLORY
MPUMALANGA
DANCING IN THE WIND
JOHANNES IS DEAD
SADDAM HUSSEIN HANGED
DEATH OF THE SOUL (Visiting Mafikeng)
IN THE WAKE OF POWER OUTAGES
THE PRICE OF MERRYMAKING
A WORD TONIC
CAUGHT OUT IN THE SUN
FREE STATE
PRAYER TO ANCESTORS
KGOSI ALBERT MOROKA
WELCOME RAIN
MORNING MR BEE
COOPER
A WATERFUL YEAR
TO AN UNSUNG HEROINE
UPON THE ADULT WORLD
TO THE GODS
HYPERVENTILATION
PURGATORY
A RAINBOW DEFILED
TO PAINT A PORTRAIT OF BEAUTY
SOUL = UNIVERSE INVERTED
A HUMAN CAULDRON
TRANCEMEDITATION (The way of the Shaman)
INTELLIGENCE (The Way of the Jazzman)
NIGHTMARE
ON TOP OF THE WORLD
MOTHO KE MOTHO KA BATHO
EQUILIBRIUM SEEKING
LOVE (The Way of the Gnostic)
UPON THE DEATH OF ALAN SALINGA (composer of the famous song)
A CRY
MYANMAR
ES’KIA MPHAHLELE IS NO MORE
MOMENTOUS LOSS (Aunt Dihedile goes too)
ANOTHER DEATH
MONIKA
UPON BARAKA’S TRUIMPH
MAKEBA OF THE PEOPLE (Upon News of her death)
BHEKI MSELEKU (Pianist Extraordinaire Dead at 53)
THE IRONY IN VICTORY
THE TRUMPET
THE BLING OF OPULENCE
LIKE A JAPANESE MASTER
DITLOGOLO TSAME/MY SISTER’S KIDS Tumi & Kele
THE BEAUTY OF PAIN
REINCARNATING GOD
ANOTHER LIFE
BRAND LESLEY
PHANDI
RED ROSE ANNOUNCES SUMMER
THE BULLHORN IS SILENCED
DEAR MOMENT
THE SOUTH AFRICAN DREAM
LOVE
INTIMATION FROM ABDULLAH (The Piano Maestro)
RETURN OF WHORISH WAYS (Mafikeng 2009)
THE AFRICAN IDEA
LET US WORK WITH NATURE
WHO WE ARE
IT’S TIME TO SAY HELLO (A theme from Sidney Mokgoatsane)
UPON THE EARTHQUAKE IN HAITI
UNCLE MALEHO IS DEAD
DENNIS BRUTUS
VISITING THE EASTERN CAPE (with Sipho & Dee)
TERREBLANCHE IS KILLED
SPIRITUAL GROWTH
TWO WORLDS
WHO DIED FOR OUR FREEDOM (Read at the memorial of Edwin Makoti in Dar es Salaam, 1989)
A RURAL SUBURB CLOGGED (Golfview 2010)
REMINISCENCES (for Thato Bereng)
KIMBERLY OF DIAMONDS
THE SILENCE OF THE VUVUZELAS
MISSIONARY POSITION (Aboard SAA Express)
PARENTS
MO-ISA° (Etched upon a Rose-atta Stone)
IT WAS A RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE
MENUTRI, UPON THE PASSING OF YOUR PA
DEDICATION
Malaika my dear friend you left me quite unexpectedly,
our hearts still pregnant with restless dream and our
hopes green for even greater adventures. This is libation
to you and the greats around you. Your passion and
talent at dramatic expression, your unbridled love for the
written word, remain unsurpassed in my encounters.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
First I acknowledge the spirit of my departed father that continues to protect and guide me in all I do. My family has borne the main blow of all the work contained here: my mum—Serongoane of Bo-Mpshe, wife—Bonolo of Bo-Makgothi, the kids—Babi, Taemi, Somi, Tlami, Tumi, Kele, Kenny, Matshediso, Karabo, Phum-phum and currently the last of them all, Tshelos. Poetry is a curse and not a gift; and your collective warmth is the energy that fires me to sustain through the thankless task. My dear friend Sipho Bavuma—you continue to sustain me intellectually; Menutri Khet Khem, my literary mate out there in the colder climes; and the young and rising Africa-minded poets—Phalafala Aphane and Keaoboka oorra Molomo, out of the dialogue with whom my creative clarity emerges. Without