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Politics
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January 3, 2023 by petrujviljoen

Spending months on the pulse of South African politics – it matters, because it is us. Most of the crisis …
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Category: poetry | Tags: haibun, haiku, personal, politics, senryu, small town, South Africa
Blur
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October 19, 2022 by petrujviljoen

I can’t see for reading –the blur of the unsafe world wheredecency, steadily is undone

Category: poetry | Tags: GBV, micro poetry, politics, senryu, the end of the world
Arose
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February 18, 2018 by petrujviljoen

a rose arranged in an artwork of the earth two stories above it …. Linked to Frank J Tassone’s haikai …
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Category: poetry, South Africa | Tags: ANC, cyril ramaphosa, frank j tassone, haikai challenge, haiku, integrity, micro poetry, politics, president, rose, South Africa
The Old Hum – Collaboration
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July 7, 2017 by petrujviljoen

Over at Jilly’s we’re doing a July Challenge. I’m taking up Nosaintaugustine on her first half, completing it with the …
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Category: poetry, South Africa | Tags: collaborative poetry, corruption, gangsters, Guptas, Jacob Zuma, jilly's, july challenge, mafia, memory, Nelson Mandela, nosaintaugustine, politics, prison, Robben Island
Dada for South Africa – Duh!
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March 20, 2016 by petrujviljoen

Photograph copyright to Sabelo Mlangeni from the exhibition, Invisible Women, 2007. Dada for South Africa – maybe how things …
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Category: poetry, South Africa | Tags: ANC, dada, Guptas, impeachment, Jacob Zuma, National Executive Council, politics, Sabelo Mlangeni, South Africa, state capture
Be On Guard – lqw wordle
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October 6, 2014 by petrujviljoen

Tassles? White skirts? The evzones go to war in that? Any sappers among ’em? Can’t imagine it! They’d make pretty …
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Category: Writing | Tags: concussed, dottle, evzone, flash fiction, gerrymander, humour, pieta, politics, sapper, short fiction, torpor, writing
Graskop – a small town …
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December 18, 2012 by petrujviljoen

Graskop is a small rural town in Mpumalanga. The town exists because of the tourist industry. It used to be …
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Category: Uncategorized | Tags: Afrikaans, black, change, chemist, Democratic Alliance, dentist, detachment, dignity, doctor, graskop, healing, hope, integrity, mind broadened, mpumalanga, nature, objectivity, patience, people, politics, power, racism, Reconciliation, respect, search of self, small town, South Africa, synergy, tolerance, tourism, understanding, value, white, white supremacy
praise poem
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November 8, 2012 by petrujviljoen

As part of my course in Creative Writing, I had to write a praise poem for a famous African. All …
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Category: feminism, poetry, Writing Poetry | Tags: ancestors, apartheid, Athene, blacks, courage, Esther, helen suzman, history, human-rights, jewish, lioness, myrtle tree, parliament, politics, power, praise poem, rare courage, stone, whites, wits

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