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NOZIZWE by MAZISI KUNENE

First Line: YOU WERE TO BE THE CENTRE OF OUR DREAM
Last Line: BY THEIR SUNKEN EYES YOUR BODY WAS CURSED %THE MOVING RIVER SHALL SWALLOW IT!
Subject(s): SOUTH AFRICA - ANTI-APARTHEID MOVEMENT; TREASON AND TRAITORS;

Poem Sources:

POETS TO THE PEOPLE; SOUTH AFRICAN FREEDOM POEMS.
  FEINBERG, BARRY (ED.)
  (1980)
 
THE PENGUIN BOOK OF SOUTHERN AFRICAN VERSE.
  GRAY, STEPHEN (ED.)
  (1989)
 



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