Section 4: Using story and poetry - Open University

Sawubona (line 7) is a Zulu greeting, roughly translated as ‘Hello!’ laaitjie (line 8) is an Afrikaans word meaning ‘little child’ or ‘young one’. SB (line 10) refers to the Security Branch – the branch of the police who checked to see if Mrs Sisulu had defied her banning order. A Yoruba poem in praise of the python ................
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