Famous Apartheid Poems by Famous Poets

These are examples of famous Apartheid poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous apartheid poems. These examples illustrate what a famous apartheid poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).

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For Sale

by Susan Rich
 Xhosa women in clothes too light

for the weather have brought wild flowers

and sit sloped along the Claremont road.

I see her through rolled windows,

watch her watch me to decide if I’ll pay.

It’s South Africa, after all, after apartheid;

but we’re still idling here, my car to her curb,

my automatic locks to her inadequate wage....Read more of this...

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