Marion Grammer

Congratulations on your tenth anniversary! May you continue to fight the good fight.

The distortion of history by omission has occurred throughout the ages and nowhere has it been more evident than in the rewriting of South Africa’s recent post-apartheid history in school textbooks.

While I appreciate that not every South African intellectual can be mentioned in your ultimate paragraph ‘The South African Intellectual Tradition’, I am still surprised that you make not a single mention of the many so-called ‘col

Some of you left me 100,000 years ago to colonise other lands.
And yet, when my European descendants first landed on my shores,
you did not know me.
There was no sense of returning home.
I was inhospitable, holding you northerners off for as long as I could,