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		<title>From the archive: So many questions, so few answers</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 05:44:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So many questions, so few answers (published in Art South Africa, August 2010) Fronted by Watkin Tudor Jones of Max Normal fame, Die Antwoord has caused ripples locally and internationally (just google it) and have signed with Interscope (Lady Gaga, Blackeyed Peas, 50Cent), or are on the verge of signing with them. One can’t be [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=groundwork.wordpress.com&amp;blog=952512&amp;post=1043&amp;subd=groundwork&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Afrikaans of the Cape Muslims &#8211; Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 03:22:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Achmat Davids, The Afrikaans of the Cape Muslims (From 1815 to 1915), eds. Hein Willemse and Suleman E. Dangor, Protea Book House, 2011, ISBN 978-1-86919-236-5 Since the 1950s, linguists working on the history of Afrikaans have known that the earliest written and printed Afrikaans documents – a language recognisably distinct from Dutch – were written [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=groundwork.wordpress.com&amp;blog=952512&amp;post=1034&amp;subd=groundwork&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Arthur Nortje, A Christmas Mass Message</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 12:37:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been reading some South African poetry from the last 3 decades of the 1900s, re-reading many favourites. I&#8217;ve also been working my way through Arthur Nortje&#8217;s Anatomy of Dark: Collected Poems (edited by Dirk Klopper, 2000). Nortje was a fascinating poet, weird, strange, feverish. I get the sense, always when reading him, of a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=groundwork.wordpress.com&amp;blog=952512&amp;post=1029&amp;subd=groundwork&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Three from Kelwyn Sole, The Blood of Our Silence</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 06:52:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RK</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following three poems are from Sole&#8217;s debut, The Blood of Our Silence (Ravan, 1987). SEXUAL POLITICS Tony, a friend, clinches many a warm night with the right phrase from Althusser and Mohammed munches women with his monologues for dinner and melting hearts with judicious use of Cabral and/or Laclau I get to parts a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=groundwork.wordpress.com&amp;blog=952512&amp;post=1025&amp;subd=groundwork&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>At the feet of a child</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 08:22:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the feet of a child for Emma &#8212;&#8211; &#8212;&#8212;&#8212; (b. 1995) The earth is young again tonight And innocent of dinosaurs Of war and famine; and small, Cauled underneath a child: Seven months, Emma rocks On all small fours and belly Rocks back and forth Until her feet find traction And, gurgling, she launches [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=groundwork.wordpress.com&amp;blog=952512&amp;post=1021&amp;subd=groundwork&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Peter Horn on Censorship, 1979</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 12:39:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RK</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Peter Horn, 1979, “The right of the people to censor the arts”,  In National Union of South African Students (Ed.), Dead in One’s Lifetime, Cape Town: NUSAS (1979) pp.92-105 The state which does not censor the arts, does not take the arts seriously. The state which does censor the arts, regards its citizens as minors, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=groundwork.wordpress.com&amp;blog=952512&amp;post=1011&amp;subd=groundwork&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Peter Horn on Censorship, 1989</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 12:25:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Peter Horn, 1989, “Censorship: Creating pockets of ignorance”, in South, 22 June 1989, p.18 (South [Weekly] was an independent newspaper generally aligned with the UDF and ANC, edited by Moegsien Williams, 1988-1991.) Any form of censorship assumes that there is one group – usually a minority – which is wiser, more intelligent, more moral than [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=groundwork.wordpress.com&amp;blog=952512&amp;post=1009&amp;subd=groundwork&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Two from Yusef Komunyakaa</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 09:09:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RK</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fog Galleon Horse-headed clouds, flags &#38; pennants tied to black Smokestacks in swamp mist. From the quick green calm Some nocturnal bird calls Ship ahoy, ship ahoy! I press against the taxicab Window. I&#8217;m back here, interfaced With a dead phosphorescence; The whole town smells Like the world&#8217;s oldest anger. Scabrous residue hunkers down under [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=groundwork.wordpress.com&amp;blog=952512&amp;post=1000&amp;subd=groundwork&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The man with the hoe</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 06:34:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RK</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Dagga, Part 2, I wrote about a photograph of a man with a hoe, a small-holding farmer on the outskirts of Durban, ca 1972: One branch of that extended family in Durban owned a small holding in a lush, hilly area where they farmed peanuts, among other things. Being so young at the time [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=groundwork.wordpress.com&amp;blog=952512&amp;post=996&amp;subd=groundwork&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Derek Walcott, Sainte Lucie, parts I and II</title>
		<link>http://groundwork.wordpress.com/2011/11/10/derek-walcott-sainte-lucie-parts-i-and-ii/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 04:28:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RK</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sainte Lucie I The Villages Laborie, Choiseul, Vieuxfort, Dennery, from these sun-bleached villages where the church bell caves in the sides of one grey-scurfed shack that is shuttered with warped boards, with rust, with crabs crawling under the house-shadow where the children played house: a net rotting among cans, the sea-net of sunlight trolling the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=groundwork.wordpress.com&amp;blog=952512&amp;post=992&amp;subd=groundwork&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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