The idea to compile these poems was conceived in the week before the South African State President was to deliver his "State of the Nation" SONA] address in parliament on the 12 February 2015. As the hype of the SONA intensified, so did the poet's resolve to give his version of the state of the nation. With these poems, the writer sought to exhibit what the state of the nation was at the time when each one of them was written. Herein lies the answer: to address the South Africans. The poems therefore provide a sense of where and what South Africa was before the advent of democracy and what...