Winston Mankunku Ngozi

1943 – 13 October 2009

A poem by Kelwyn Sole from his debut collection, The Blood of Our Silence (Ravan, 1987):

Mankunku

Dark golden boat
on a sea
far away, rock with me
rock with me:

deep-throated bird
gentle me home
past the mud-lined street
where thoughts stick fast
and children pick rubbish
hungrily

the night flakes notes
from the scalp of my sorrow –

hide in my pillow
and cry for me

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Mankunku playing “Yakhal’ Inkomo”

Profile of Mankunku at music.org.za

Short obituary by Ryland Fisher.

Alex van Heerden

23 November 1974 – 7 January 2009

Frontier Rogue.

Tribute page at WhatsOnSA.

‘Sissie my kind‘, ‘Vrou van Samaria‘, courtesy of Derek Gripper.