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Letters on the banning of Staff rider No 1 Athol and Sheila Fugard, Andre Brink, Directorate of Publications, the Publishers Mafika Pascal Gwala Mpumalanga, Hammarsdale, Natal ( Five Poems) Julius Chingono,Zimbabwe( Four Poems) Ahmed Essop, Lenasia  Gladiators, a story Stanley Mhlongo Evaton, It’s Love Freedom In This District. Mtutuzeli Matshoba, Orlando,My Friend, the Outcast, a story. Setsepe Sedibe, Zakhele Mtsweni Bayajula Group, Kwa Thema , Poems Meshack Mabogoane Bayajula, Kwa Thema ,Strangers in the Day, a story Bonisile Joshua Motaung Kwa Thema ,Two Poems Sipho T Molale Iketlo, Soweto ,Portraits of the Gone, a poem Wessel Ebersohn Durban , The Dumping Ground, a story.. Douglas Livingstone Durban , Two Poems Mango Tshabangu Jabavu, Soweto , Thoughts On A Train .. Sekola Sello Jabavu , Vincent, a tribute Hitler, a cautionary tale Fanyana Mokaleng Jabavu

Rain, a poem Mashadi Mashabela Jabavu , Barbed Wire Fence Miriam Tlali Rockville, Soweto , The Point of No Return, a story Mandla Ndlazi, OupaThando Mthimkulu Rockville , Poems Christopher van Wyk Johannesburg ,Five Poems and a Playlet Muhammad Omar Ruddin, Two Poems Cherry Clayton,Three Poems: Lionel Abrahams, A. Spiegel, Reg Rumney , Poems Len Morgan . The Fugitive, a poem : Errol Great Mpye, Lady Nunu Ramohlokwane, Gordon Khuvutlu, Moalusi John wa Ledwaba, C. S. Gopane Creative Youth Association, Diepkloof, Soweto, Poems Pat Seboko, Elias Rakau Mphulo, Edmund Thengani Open School Group, Johannesburg ,Poems Stephen Watson Cape Town , Four Poems Pam Cox Cape Town , Forbidden Fruit L B. Z. Buthelezi Dundee, Natal ,Nam hi a ngu Goodfriday a poem Mothobi Mutloatse Pimville, Soweto . Two Stories Sol Rachilo Dube, Soweto . The Bicycle,( a poem)Jackie Seroke Alexandra .Black Egoism, a poem Noorie Cassim Kimberley,  It Is the Storm, (a poem: Thabo Mooke Hammanskraal , Matshidiso, a poem Amelia House Kentucky, USA ( Four Poems: Tributes to Casey Motsisi Soweto Speaking, Mrs H. Konopi interviewed by Miriam Tlali Yesterday, Yesterday, Now a new Staffrider column Reviews : Jonathan Paton, Xolile Mavuso Cover photographs: Ralph Ndawo. Photographs by: Mark Lavender, Terence Bloch Drawings by: Paul Stopforth, Nhlanhla Xaba, Madi Phala, Matsemela Cain Manaka. Graphics by: Wopko Jensma