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Ingrid Jonker, The child (read by Nelson Mandela).

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Uploaded by on Feb 6, 2011

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One of Ingrid Jonker's most famous poems, "Die Kind" (The Child), was written in the wake of the 1960 Sharpeville Massacre. Read the poem that was read by President Nelson Mandela during the opening of South Africa's first democratic Parliament, in May 1994.

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  • Incredible poetry read by an incredible man! But Ingrid - how desperate must you  have felt that cold night when you walked into the ocean at Gordonsbay, knowing there was no coming back...

  • Een legende om nooit te vergeten.

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