Tatamkhulu Afrika, Maqabane. The spaces between Tatamkhulu Afrika, Maqabane. A city like Cape Town has many spaces.
Poetry inhabits the spaces between.
Spaces not seen by its citizens, unacknowledged spaces, or spaces rejected as filthy non-spaces. This is where life is happening. And it is this life which he captures with accuracy and compassion. It is as if the houses of the wealthy are merely a matrix, uninhabited, sterile, in whose interstices this, the real life of Cape Town, takes place. Strange things happen in these empty spaces.