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Cassette

Sihle Ntuli

Cassette

I could never
bring myself to ask

the artist and title
of the cassette tape
that my uncle was killed for

on the streets
of KwaMashu F

the murderer still walks
his footsteps block out
our moments of silence

—Sihle Ntuli (in the Johannesburg Review of Books)

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