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Ingrid Jonker
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Literature & Ideas Distinguished

Ingrid Jonker

1933 – 1965

Poet of "Die kind"

Distinguished is level 3 of 4 in the South Africa Hall of Fame: sustained excellence over a career, widely honoured at home. See how the levels work.

Why they are here

An Afrikaans poet whose poem "Die kind" mourns a child shot by police at Nyanga in 1960.

Nelson Mandela read it in his first address to parliament in 1994. She died in 1965.
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