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The task of transforming South Africa should not be the sole responsibility of the government but that of everyone who lives here.

— Keorapetse Kgositsile

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The production of poetry is, like everything else produced by a people, rooted in and informed by human action and interaction.

If you decide you want to become a poet then it’s your duty to be knowledgeable and to hone your skills.

Does being in a certain position give you wisdom? If you went there without wisdom you will remain there without it.

In a situation of oppression, there are no choices beyond didactic writing: either you are a tool of oppression or an instrument of liberation.

The poet has been there to affirm life as a creative activity, to criticize, to entertain

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