Ingrid Jonker was a South African poet and outspoken political activist. Her poems have been translated into several other languages beyond her original Afrikaans and South African English. Today, a prestigious prize has been created in her honor for a debut work in Afrikaans or English poetry.
‘The Child Who Was Shot Dead by Soldiers in Nyanga’ by Ingrid Jonker describes an indominatble spirit of freedom and justice embodied within a symbolic child.
The child is not dead
the child raises his fists against his mother
who screams Africa screams the smell
of freedom and heather
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