First edition published May 2010; cover design, layout and design by Barbara Mueller; Printing by MegaDigital, Cape Town.

About the Book:
Bring your smile my angel and light up the day for the time has come to heal and reveal
These memories I possess of the night before haunt me to kill and uphill what I feel
I ought to capture such moments as these joyously and freely
This land smells the honey which was dangerously hunted dearly
It took courage and bravery to hit the bull’s eye and celebrate the victory.

This anthology is a must read! The above is taken from stanza 3 inside Through The Tunnel. Ravaging with words that capture the attention. You would swear that this is a writer of young and old, well it is true – I am not far away from middle age! My perception is a gift to select and utilize words skillfully. Through The Tunnel boasts a flair of energized structure and an upright spine of senses. This South African writer is bound for the best walks of life having only been to Lesotho and Swaziland and became highly inspired by the different landscapes that precipitate the coordinates of geographical manoeuvres.
I have been personally inspired by the gift and pursued it to honour my source of life. This thrilling masterpiece will go as far as the four corners of this earth.
“The death rate is bound to dramatically decrease if we can all read or be read by more, especially the African house.” – Hector ‘poet’ Kunene
As a columnist for the newspaper Free State News, I am humbled to be part of history making, playing a role in the Bloemfontein community to enlarge knowledge and spread the word of knowledge and peace.
I enjoyed creating this book.

About the Author:
Hector Kunene is a South African young and aspiring poet. He was born in Hammarsdale in 1982.A place where the politics reigned with bloodshed and the burning of houses for the fight of dominance between the ANC and the IFP in general around 1989. He is a first born in the family with 2 other siblings. He worked in his life just after completing his matric and the love of art and poetry continued from there on after it all began in high school. His work is yet to be published, one of the Poems he wrote called Bloody Corpuscles appeared on Sunday World and from there on he continued to complete his first offering, an anthology called Through The Tunnel. The poem Bloody Corpuscles is about alarming the use of the specific words when talking especially to the young ones. He emphasizes on calling a spade a spade to get the message across. His performance include places called Caprivi in Tembisa North Johannesburg where he would normally attend weekly poetry sessions and perform with artist from all spheres who would come and showcase their gifts. As he hails from Kwazulu Natal he is a Zulu who still speaks a breasted language thou he spent the rest of his high school life in Johannesburg from 1996 to 2001.

His poems are mainly in English but he throws in Zulu poems like Izinkomo Zobaba and Maye Kufa which are normally shared at occasionally. He has worked with several artists in the Free State in compilation of an African language book called Dikarabo tsa Bophelo which features 2 of his poems. This book promotes the writing in indigenous languages and to preserve the mother tongue in writings. The African language book is yet to be published.

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