Jumping up and down at Checkers

Checkers is one of the big supermarket chains here in SA. They must have to deal with massive numbers of people who come to their premises – mainly to do their shopping, one hopes. Security, a word that means the opposite in some (most?) cases, has become a major concern to most businesses in this country, particularly as the holiday season approaches. The rise of armed robberies at shopping malls is a disturbing reality that shoppers here now face. In fact, one such incident had taken place just a few weeks ago at the particular mall we frequent.


This post has nothing to do with that. It has to do with the way I must have looked to the personnel monitoring the security screens at a Checkers when my beaten up cellphone notified me of an email. My daughter who was standing next to me thought her father had gone bonkers. I was trying very hard not to jump up and down. I was also beaming at every stranger who walked past. I was, to put it mildly, overwhelmed by a most unexpected news.


The official announcement has just been released, so I am posting it here. I have been warned that maybe I am blowing my own horn… sometimes a little too loudly. I want to think of it as sharing some good news. Here it is. Books LIVE has the same announcement up.


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Filed under: A Thousand Eyes, Europe, Fragments and Moments, Literary News & Articles, Mga Tula / Poetry, poetry, Sky for Silent Wings Tagged: alien, Illegal, immigration, Jacana Media, Jim Pascual Agustin, migrant workers, miners, Sol Plaatje European Union Poetry Award, Undocumented
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Published on October 25, 2014 20:37
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