"Rode, Linda - I, A Living Arrow" - читать интересную книгу автора (Rode Linda)

lifestyle and counted my steps across the dirty bricks. I crouched next
to the red jacket. We saw each other ...

Then the siren of a police van tore through the night, and the mo-
ment of truth, of person meeting person, had come and gone.

Grade 11 - Rhenish Girls' High, Stellenbosch

In this world full of sadness and wars, in this world which is a gift from
our Heavenly Father to us, I find many things that disturb me so much
that my heart feels like exploding with anger and compassion. The Lord
has given us His Holy Son as a gift but the world spurns this gift.

Sello Frangis
Grade 12 - Marallaneng Senior Sekondъre Skool, Ficksburg

Undulukil' uSlovo - Slovo has departed

Jeffrey Brilliant Tyesi

We are not brave, we are full of tears, we people of Africa,
we are not heroes in our mourning of Slovo.

Slovo, you assisted us at the birth of an agreement;
you laid the eggs and sat on them until the chickens
were hatched.
You spurred us on towards a new South Africa.

It is he, people of Africa, who fed you,
it is he who insisted on nests for you
while you were hiding and protecting yourselves.
Let there be no more tears, be quiet now.

Hamba kwedini yamaBomvana!
Hamba kwedini kaSlovo!

(freely translated fragment)

Grade 12 - Masimanyane Senior Secondary School, Bisho

Hope is lost

Deshandra Dass

We live in an age of tolerance, where the dilemmas caused by previous
generations are being resolved. Everything you read in the press or see
on television advertises the "new" South Africa as a place where no
grudges are borne and everyone has accepted that all the people of the
Rainbow Nation are equal, with the same rights. There is no longer any
division of people by race or culture, creed or colour. We all live in har-