Danielle Bowler
contemplates the complexities that come with taking the issue of heritage
seriously. Eyewitness News
There is a line from an
Arthur Nortje poem that incessantly gnaws at me. It brings to the surface many
of the discontents that I have with Heritage Day and the sheer weight of all
that we have inherited. In Dogsbody-halfbreed, Nortje writes: “he who belongs
to nowhere is to nothing/deeply attached”.
