The document provides background on apartheid in South Africa and details how the Group Areas Act of 1950 defined where different racial groups could live. It forced the relocation of over 450,000 Africans from urban to rural "homeland" areas between 1950-1968. The second part profiles South African writer Tatamkhulu Afrika, who faced discrimination and obstacles due to apartheid policies around race and where he could live. He used different names at times reflecting different identities imposed on him.

9. Nothing’s Changed Tatamkhulu Afrika

12. Tatamkhulu Afrika's comments on the poem: "Nothing's Changed is entirely autobiographical. I can't quite remember when I wrote this but I think it must have been about 1990. District Six was a complete waste by then, and I hadn't been passing through it for a long time. But nothing has changed. Not only District Six ... I mean we may have a new constitution, we may have on the face of it a beautiful democracy, but the racism in this country is absolutely redolent. We try to pretend to the world that it does not exist, but it most certainly does, all day long, every day, shocking and saddening and terrible. Look, I don't want to sound like a prophet of doom, because I don't feel like that at all. I am full of hope. But I won't see it in my lifetime. It's going to take a long time. I mean in America it's taken all this time and it's still not gone ... So it will change. But not quickly, not quickly at all." Tatamkhulu Afrika's comments on the poem: "Nothing's changed is entirely autobiographical. I can't quite remember when I wrote this but I think it must have been about 1990. District Six was a complete waste by then, and I hadn't been passing through it for a long time. But nothing has changed. Not only District Six ... I mean we may have a new constitution, we may have on the face of it a beautiful democracy, but the racism in this country is absolutely redolent. We try to pretend to the world that it does not exist, but it most certainly does, all day long, every day, shocking and saddening and terrible. "Look, I don't want to sound like a prophet of doom, because I don't feel like that at all. I am full of hope. But I won't see it in my lifetime. It's going to take a long time. I mean in America it's taken all this time and it's still not gone ... So it will change. But not quickly, not quickly at all." Tatamkhulu Afrika's comments on the poem: "Nothing's changed is entirely autobiographical. I can't quite remember when I wrote this but I think it must have been about 1990. District Six was a complete waste by then, and I hadn't been passing through it for a long time. But nothing has changed. Not only District Six ... I mean we may have a new constitution, we may have on the face of it a beautiful democracy, but the racism in this country is absolutely redolent. We try to pretend to the world that it does not exist, but it most certainly does, all day long, every day, shocking and saddening and terrible. "Look, I don't want to sound like a prophet of doom, because I don't feel like that at all. I am full of hope. But I won't see it in my lifetime. It's going to take a long time. I mean in America it's taken all this time and it's still not gone ... So it will change. But not quickly, not quickly at all." Tatamkhulu Afrika's comments on the poem: "Nothing's changed is entirely autobiographical. I can't quite remember when I wrote this but I think it must have been about 1990. District Six was a complete waste by then, and I hadn't been passing through it for a long time. But nothing has changed. Not only District Six ... I mean we may have a new constitution, we may have on the face of it a beautiful democracy, but the racism in this country is absolutely redolent. We try to pretend to the world that it does not exist, but it most certainly does, all day long, every day, shocking and saddening and terrible. "Look, I don't want to sound like a prophet of doom, because I don't feel like that at all. I am full of hope. But I won't see it in my lifetime. It's going to take a long time. I mean in America it's taken all this time and it's still not gone ... So it will change. But not quickly, not quickly at all."

17. ‘ leaving small mean O/ of small, mean mouth.’ ‘ spit a little on the floor:/ it’s in the bone.’ ‘ crushed ice white glass,/ linen falls,/ the sungle rose.’ ‘ new, up-market, haute cuisine/ guard at the gatepost,/ whites only inn.’ ‘ the hot, white, inwards turning/ anger of my eyes’ District Six has not been fully redeveloped. It appears neglected. The blacks were forced to move out and the land is now derelict. The cans suggest it is littered. The weeds show that it is unkempt. The phrase ‘amiable weeds’ draws the reader’s attention to it because of the unusual combination of friendly & weeds ‘ . . . Cans/ trodden on, crunch/ in tall, purple-flowering,/ amiable weeds.’ How it relates to the cultural/ social situation in South Africa Significant features of language Quotation