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By Dr Charlton Cussans. A few years ago, I read a poem about South Africa which called the country “our free and happy land”. Well, I think I did. I could have sworn that I did, because the phrase stuck with me. I wish I could remember who wrote it, or what it was called, because I’ve not been able to find the damn thing since. Maybe it never existed, but I’m not going to claim the phrase is my own creation, it’s too evocative for that, and I’m not that good a writer. But I c

Questions from Gary Oswald This Interview is with Charlton Cussans, a regular SLP author. Hello and thanks so much for talking to us....

By Charlton Cussans The later tragedy of Apartheid within a unified South Africa, with its stark (although arbitrary) lines of racial division, would disguise, at least to the outside world, old divisions within the white South African community. Anglo-South Africans and Afrikaner/Boer South Africans might have been united in a commitment (albeit not total) to white supremacy, but there were divisions of language, culture and religion between the two groups that had their ori