And by great waters the seede of Sihor, the haruest of the riuer is her reuenew, and she is a mart of nations.

Modern South African film directors and performers as bards, izimbongi or storytellers have only residues of existing 'traditional societies' to bring to the surface. Where primarily oral cultures elaborate their stories within the epic form, fables and extraordinary heroes and fantasies, the izimbongi in The People's Poet and Songololo are more concerned with cultural loss, oppression, colonisation and emancipation.

It's time to stomp out crime in America.

(The depressed and jobless may be inspired by the libidinously inventive party a friend of Rudnick’s organizes when in a similar condition.)