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From The duPs Photo Album:

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Picnicing at the Albert Memorial, Hyde Park
The path is narrow
Trewillis Farm Dairy
Downstream from the house
At the Fun Fair - Montreux
Zambian Salvation Army officers meeting together
Health Education - 2
Overlooking Victoria Bay - Carmel
CHIK 01
A neighbour's in trouble
Interlaced lime in The Avenue, Cherry Garden - Ham House
Up the path in Emmett's Garden
White and yellow
Lenses in the lighthouse, Lizard
Marsh Orchid, Lindisfarne
The path through bluebell woods
Lizard Lighthouse bulbs
The path behind Hazel Cottage
Leprosy Settlement Guides
Aerial View of Chikankata
South Africa

Native to South Africa, Paul and Margaret met in Cape Town, while studying at the University of Cape Town, marrying in 1964. The country and its people figure frequently in the poems.

 

Apartheid days, with its obsession for racial purity show in Isolation; Banned recognises the banning orders placed on some writers during those days; A Dagga Smoker’s Prayer includes the phenomenon of ‘code-switching’, drawing on South Africa’s many languages; leadership of The Salvation Army in Southern Africa brought responsibility to cultivate harmony, highlighted in Reconciliation.

 

Love of the country’s natural beauty, the veld, the mountains and South Africa’s coastline all come out as in Freedom in the Drakensberg and The Contour Path. But a certain wistfulness about South Africa creeps in as crime and the HIV epidemic cloud the horizon in Another Paradise Lost.
# Article Title Date
1 Afrikaner Journey December 2009
2 The Stoker October 2008
3 Carmel Revisited October 2008
4 Celebrating Ancestors December 2007
5 Reconciliation July 2006
6 Dingane at Ihlatikhulu June 2006
7 Another Paradise Lost June 2006
8 The Lion's Chase June 2006
9 Freedom in the Drakensberg February 2002
10 The Empty Rock Pools February 2002
11 The Contour Path February 2002
12 Ndlavela November 1994
13 Banned October 1977
14 A Dagga Smoker's Prayer April 1972
15 Isolation April 1966
16 Umkomasani Waterfall January 1965
17 Sand on the Hillside January 1964