Some months ago Mike Alfred and I decided to compile an anthology of new poems about Joburg. There have been many written in the past but we felt we needed to give a contemporary view (as expressed by poets) given the vast changes in the city over the past twenty-five years – some positive but many negative, reflecting the general impact of ANC rule on a post-apartheid South Africa.
Du Toit draws on his childhood years in Botswana (the Bechuanaland Protectorate, as it was in those
days) to examine questions of language identity and entitlement.
The text reflects on the past, and many of the troubles we face today were wrought in the past. The text is indeed a quest for kindness in the face of our history, one in which the very notion of forgiveness seems nebulous.
“The genesis of this long poem lies in a twelve-year sojourn in Saudi Arabia, where I worked, teaching at a university in the oil-rich eastern province of that country.
The collection deals with strange and mysterious subject matter such as mysticism,
surrealism, Middle Eastern mythology, and dreams. 
Some months ago Mike Alfred and I decided to compile an anthology of new poems about Joburg. There have been many written in the past but we felt we needed to give a contemporary view (as expressed by poets) given the vast changes in the city over the past twenty-five years – some positive but many negative, reflecting the general impact of ANC rule on a post-apartheid South Africa. 
Du Toit draws on his childhood years in Botswana (the Bechuanaland Protectorate, as it was in those
days) to examine questions of language identity and entitlement. 
The text reflects on the past, and many of the troubles we face today were wrought in the past. The text is indeed a quest for kindness in the face of our history, one in which the very notion of forgiveness seems nebulous. 
“The genesis of this long poem lies in a twelve-year sojourn in Saudi Arabia, where I worked, teaching at a university in the oil-rich eastern province of that country.