"The old people told us stories...about how people live and...about how to see. They "read" the clouds. We used to sit outside in the courtyard, and especially in the very bright moonlight when there were a lot of clouds they used to read the stories for us and tell us: look at that, look at the soldiers, look at this! And they would tell us: you're going to have to see other life that's coming."
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Arnold, M. (1989). Helen Mmakgoba Mmapula Sebidi: Standard Bank Young Artist Award 1989. Johannesburg: Standard Bank. p. 7.
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