ABSTRACT
Skryt did not appear in South Afr ica. Published in the Netherlands in 1972, it was banned for distribution in South Africa, as its author no doubt expected, by the South African censorship board. In banning it, the board singled out ‘Letter from foreign parts’, interpreting the poem as an unacceptable accusation against white South Africans, against Afrikaners, and particularly against Prime Minister Vorster (Brink 1980:1-2).
