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Phaswane Mpe Quotes

1970–2004 South Africa

Phaswane Mpe (10 September 1970 – 12 December 2004) was a South African poet and novelist. He was educated at the University of the Witwatersrand, where he was a lecturer in African literature.

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I do not not own life, you often said when you tried to laugh your difficulties away.

Welcome to Our Hillbrow (2001)

...people should remain in their own countries and try to sort out the problems of those respective countries, rather than fleeing them; South Africa had too many problems of its own.

Welcome to Our Hillbrow (2001)

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