Although there are countless books and poems and discussions about love in the literature, I wanted to find people talking about romantic love in their lives.
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| Mamphele Ramphele interview in 1995 on SAFM PrtScn of our Natural Document Management (NDM) cataloguing |
Part of the interview as it was transcribed in the NDM cataloguing is copied.
It gives such a beautiful insight in a love story that intertwined with the history of South Africa:
"DR MAMPHELE RAMPHELE LOVE STORY IS PART OF ALL SOUTH AFRICANS HISTORY
- SHE BECAME STEVE BIKO'S COLLEAGUE - FRIEND AND LOVER WHEN
THEY WERE HEAVLY INVOLVED IN THE BLACK CONSCIOUSNESS MOVEMENT - SHE
WAS CARRYING HIS CHILD WHEN STEVE BIKO WAS BEATEN TO DEATH - STEVE
BIKO WAS MARRIED AT THE TIME WHEN THEY WERE CONDUCTING THEIR
RELATIONSHIP - THERE WAS A LOT OF EXTERNAL INTERFERENCE - THEIR
RELATIONSHIP WAS VERY COMPLEX - THEIR RELATIONSHIP WAS BUILT ON THE
FRIENDSHIP THEY HAD FIRST AND THE SHARED CONCERNS THEY HAD - SHE
WAS VERY BUSY - HER JOB OCCUPIED HER EVERY WAKING MOMENT - BECAUSE
OF HER WORK SHE COULD NOT REFLECT AS OFTEN AS SHE WANTED TO - THE
PAIN OF SHARING A PARTNER WITH A MARRIED SITUATION - IT INTRODUCES
AMBIVALENCE - SHE DID NOT WANT TO HURT ANOTHER WOMAN - THEY NEW
THEY COULD NOT BE SEPERATED - SHARING HIM WITH FELLOW POLITICAL
ACTIVIST WAS ALSO A PROBLEM - THEY DID NOT HAVE MUCH TIME TO
THEMSELVES - MAMPHELE IS A VERY PRIVATE AND SENTIMENTAL PERSON -
STEVE LOVED PEOPLE AROUND HIM - HE ALSO HAD MANY AFFAIRS..."
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| PrtScn of the 1990 Radio Suid-Afrika (former SABC radio station) interview on the Program Vrouerubriek |
Another treasure is the 1990 Afrikaans interview by Daniel Hugo with Jan Rabie, a South African author, about his relationship with his wife Marjorie Wallace, a painter from Scotland, whom he met in France in 1949.
It was part of series of interviews with well-known male writers about the role of the most important women in their lives.
He was Afrikaans and she was English. She learnt the Afrikaans language within 3 months, and they had been together until his death in 2002. She followed him to South Africa and had to adapt to a different way of living in South Africa.
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There are countless such stories that has been told on radio that are being preserved for future generations and that add to our wealth of heritage.
Springbok Radio, a former SABC Radio station that was preserved by the Springbok Radio Preservation Society of South Africa, and are being hosted again through the SABC Radio Archives, is also doing a Valentine's stream for this week.
Check the Springbok Radio Audio Stream for this week.
Hope you had a happy Valentine's Day!
Blog post by Karen du Toit, Afrikaans Archivist in the SABC Radio Archives.
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