Authorz: Gert Strydom

Even though a new government is in place, in Soweto, Alexandra and Mamelodi there are still hungry children playing in the streets. Even though BEE…

I see a boy making roads in the red-brown sand, where his blue plastic Ranchero pickup drives up and down past a mud pond. There’s…

The yellowish-red of the caracal blended like natural camouflage into the yellow-brown winter grass and when it moved its head, the pointed ears with tufts…

With screaming sirens and flashing red lights they cut right through traffic and the white vehicles, appear and disappear at any time of day. Where…

I have seen brave men passing me. Men who were composed when death came agonising by and stuck to the training taught before I have…

You press my hand against you chest and I feel life, pulsing through you and your hand is soft on mine. The smell of your…

I once knew a man who was a master at his art. The secrets that he knew set him apart and enkindled brilliance was the…

Hated by a great part of humanity and blessed by maybe more and his desperate deeds that pulled people out of live, a super country…

I wrestled in the darkness of night and the moon was gone as if plucked from the sky, by him that laid his hands on…

I At first the sky is crystal blue and the sun hangs high, in the way that it always take. Specks of white clouds appear…

I fly away from Tanzania and as the plane turns over Dar es-Salaam, I see the statue of the black man breaking his chains and…

Do not lay me down in a grave, send me to the furnace and scatter my ashes on the wild wind that never rests. Let…

In the morning you smile at me while the sleep still burns in your eyes and like a white rose that doesn’t yet fold open,…

When I feel you soft and hot under me and I loose myself in you and we are long part of each other and your…

On one stormy winter morning, I walked along Blouberg’s beach and out of the soft falling rain a figure on a horse appeared coming out…

This morning it was dripping when I got up and I wanted to say goodbye, but I thought that you are probably still lying and…

The stars wink from above at me and I wonder how many stars, I can see with my eyes I still wonder more to where…

At Lolly Jackson’s bar she smiled at me and as smiles goes, her’s was teasing. She smiled quite gay and her eyes and lips and…

Our love came to fullness, before the church bell rang off midnight. Before twelve o’clock you where a well built nymph, that kisses and are…

See how new green shoots and branches and leaves and flowers appear and the green grass rises everywhere, the gods had set a part of…