Oorlam Publikasies

10/05/2026

Titel: Inheemse Ve'lange
Bundel: Kraal: My Koms en Kerk
Te Koop by: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1905697
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soms voel ek sô ve’lore
soes ôs oeroue stamouers
my trane vloei vi’ bietig tye
my trane soes watervalle
stort uit my
klop aan my gees
soes my grootouma
se grootouma se grootouma
wie se onvormde gestaltes
my elke dag skape
wie se ongevoelde hanne
my in gebed dra

voor ek was wat
hulle my gemaak het
was ek julle
ek was onner’ie kalwers
een van’ie trotse bulle

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Met hierdie projek dek die skrywer homself met die mantel van stamdigter en murmereer oor die vernietiging en uitwissing van krale en kinners. Met hierdie bundel onnersoek die digter die diepte van inheemsheid in 'n land waar almal inheems is maar niemand inheems voel. Figure soos Autshamoa, Krotoa,...

09/05/2026

08/05/2026

Titel: Noordster
Bundel: Melanien Melancholie Vol. 1
Te Koop: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1846089
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visoëne van vlees
akrobeer heen
en weer soes
jou liggaam sirkels
rondom my
mure dans
dit voel ek
is in’ie midde
van ‘n godin
soes’ie strale met
jou sig sinkroniseer
en van jou
bruin oë afrol
want dis kulkuns
hoe jy my gees
soes ‘n viool speel
asof elke string
van my hart
vi’ jou vingers
gemaak was
ek is immers
‘n ve’lore reisiger
opsoek na sy
noordster

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Melanien Melancholie Vol. 1 handel oor die soektog na 'n sin van self aan die suidelike punt van Afrika. Die temas van liefde, lus, lood en letsels word onnersoek in hierdie projek. Hierdie projek addresseer ook kwessies van self-verkenning en self-identiteit in 'n land waar mens-wees al hoe meer vo...

08/05/2026

[Political Disobedience as Necessity]
..the fact is that, while we are living technically in the Atomic Age, the majority of men — including most of those who are in power — still live emotionally in the Stone Age; that while our mathematics, astronomy, and the natural sciences are of the twentieth century, most of our ideas about politics, the state, and society lag far behind the age of science. If mankind commits su***de it will be because people will obey those who command them to push the deadly buttons; because they will obey the archaic passions of fear, hate, and greed; because they will obey obsolete clichés of State sovereignty and national honor.

Source: Erich Fromm, On Disobedience: Why Freedom Means Saying "No" to Power, 1981, e-book📚

20/03/2026

"What is universalized under the rule of capital is not the drive for a consensual and encompassing political order, but rather the compulsions of market depend­ence. For capital, this amounts to a compulsion to produce in order to sell— production for exchange value, not for use. This, in its turn, makes it rational for capitalists to seek political power over their workforce — both at the micro level on the shop floor, and in broader political institutions outside the production process."

Source: Vivek Chibber, Postcolonial Theory and the Spectre of Capital, pg. 125, 2013📚

20/03/2026

Titel: Etnografie Eroties
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ôs loep nou al ‘n lang pad
ôs wat al iewer as poppe
in glaskasse ve’toon word
ôs die obsessie
van’ie koloniale fallus
word al iewer geonnersoek
deur eurosentriese oë
wat boustof vi’ akademiese
skommel sessies ve’samel
ôs wat’ie kosmos bedgenoot noem
die stofpad ken van ôs trane
ôs geraamtes noem’ie wind tuiste
ôs soek’ie dertig silwer munstukke
om geweer en gewete te verraai nie
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