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GOODNIGHT

May the darkness treat you well
May silence mean peace
May the sounds and the shadows in the dark
Send you off into a heavenly sleep
And may you dream dreams
And never just sleep

NAG

Mag die nag jou goed behandel
Mag die donker vir jou mooi wees
Mag stilte vir jou vrede beteken
En mag die naggeluide jou aan die slaap sus
Mag jy drome droom
En nie net slaap nie

Ronelda Kamfer

(South Africa, 1981)

Ronelda S Kamfer entered Afrikaans literature like a Guy Fawkes’ rocket at Pentecost. This remarkable poet was born in 1981 to parents who lived in Blackheath in the Cape. At the age of three, she went to stay with her grandparents, labourers on a Grabouw fruit farm. At ten, she returned to her parents in Blackheath and later moved to Eersterivier on the Cape Flats where she encountered firstha...

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GOODNIGHT

May the darkness treat you well
May silence mean peace
May the sounds and the shadows in the dark
Send you off into a heavenly sleep
And may you dream dreams
And never just sleep

GOODNIGHT

May the darkness treat you well
May silence mean peace
May the sounds and the shadows in the dark
Send you off into a heavenly sleep
And may you dream dreams
And never just sleep