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Creative Writing Lecturer, Sabata-mpho Mokae<\/a>, was invited to deliver a speech at the Beaconsfield Library\u2019s historic 130th anniversary speech. The text follows:<\/p>\n

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\u201cOnce upon a time a\u00a0brightly shining star hurriedly traversed the skies from east to west,\u00a0splitting the heavens and illuminating mother earth. No one knew from whence it\u00a0came, no one knew whither it went, but it delighted with its astonishing beauty\u00a0and glory surpassing that of any other star.\u201d<\/p>\n

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These words could very\u00a0well be describing ta diamond that just got discovered in Hopetown or in\u00a0Griquatown or in Dikgatlong in the late 1860s and early 1870s, for these were\u00a0the discoveries that led to the Diamond Rush and saw the multitudes from near\u00a0and far flock to Bultfontein farm in the dry interior of South Africa.\u00a0Overnight a hillock became a hole and the farm became a town called New Rush.\u00a0Time flew and New Rush became a cosmopolitan city of Kimberley.<\/p>\n

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As the the 17-year-old\u00a0Cecil John Rhodes and 18-year-old Barney Barnato came to Kimberley and made a\u00a0fortune and the sons of Bafokeng came and worked and with their earnings bought\u00a0the land on which Africa\u2019s richest nations live, Kimberley also became a city\u00a0of firsts: the first postal service in 1871, the first drive-in bar in 1875,\u00a0the first professional training of nurses in 1877, in September 1882, Kimberley\u2019s streetlights came on before that of the city of London, making it\u00a0the first city in the southern hemisphere to have electric street lights, in\u00a01883, Kimberley gave the country its first stock exchange, in 1889 it became the\u00a0first city to have a hotel with electricity, in 1911 the first public flight using an aircraft built in South Africa and the first to have a plane accident\u00a0in 1913 and so the story of Kimberley\u2019s first continues.<\/p>\n

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Then World War I started\u00a0in 1914 and mining operations ceased in the world\u2019s biggest excavation. That\u00a0excavation turned into a tourist attraction, the world\u2019s biggest human-made\u00a0hole, it was sold to the world. Kimberley became the Big Hole and the Big Hole\u00a0is a museum. Histories are displayed in museums. Diamonds deplete every time a\u00a0diamond is extracted from the ground. At the moment, Kimberley is known all\u00a0over the world as the City of Diamonds. But that is merely a historical fact.\u00a0Diamonds are going and soon we will need new diamonds.<\/p>\n

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The quote in the\u00a0beginning comes from a biography Lover of his People: a biography of Sol\u00a0Plaatje<\/em> by Modiri Molema<\/a>. In this accessible biography, Molema opens by\u00a0describing the birth of a man whose existence can be likened to that of a\u00a0diamond in Kimberley, Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje<\/a> in October 1876, at the height\u00a0of the Diamond Rush. Molema describes Plaatje as \u201ca meteoric star\u201d and perhaps\u00a0that description was prophetic for the star that Plaatje was illuminated our\u00a0city and the world, and created a path on which many other lovers of the word\u00a0walked on as they follow on his footsteps.<\/p>\n

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Plaatje arrived in\u00a0Kimberley as a young man, barely out of his teens, just a few years after the\u00a0arrival of Olive Schreiner, the famous author of The Story of an African\u00a0Farm<\/em> who wrote Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland<\/em> while she resided\u00a0at number 22 Otto Street in Homestead, Kimberley.<\/p>\n

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As diamonds get depleted\u00a0in Kimberley, writers and other professionals who wrote a book or two came to\u00a0Kimberley from other parts of the world and others were born here and in nearby\u00a0towns and farms: Olive Schreiner, Solomon Plaatje, Budlwana Bud M\u2019Belle\u00a0(Plaatje\u2019s mentor and brother-in-law who wrote A Kaffir Scholar\u2019s Companion<\/em>),\u00a0Zacharia Keodirelang Matthews (a professor and diplomat who write Freedom\u00a0for My People<\/em>), academic and politician Robert Sobukwe, renowned journalist\u00a0Aggrey Klaaste and a member of the famous Die Sestigers<\/em> and poet who\u00a0died too soon but left a lasting legacy Ingrid Jonker, whose poem The Child\u00a0<\/em>Nelson Mandela read during his inauguration in May 1994.<\/p>\n

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Modiri Molema, Plaatje\u2019s\u00a0prot\u00e9g\u00e9 also lived briefly in Kimberley when he was a teacher at Lyndhurst Road\u00a0School where the fire station is today. He later wrote not only a biography of\u00a0Plaatje in Setswana, the only biography of Plaatje written by a person who knew\u00a0him personally and lived with him, but also a book titled Bantu Past and\u00a0Present<\/em> which he wrote when he was in medical school in Scotland.<\/p>\n

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That so many people who\u00a0wrote books and also articles in newspapers and other periodicals lived in our\u00a0city supports an argument that the new diamonds in the historical City of\u00a0Diamonds are stories and books.<\/p>\n

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Eleven years ago,\u00a0upcoming and seasoned writers descended on our city to participate in the\u00a0inaugural Northern Cape Writers Festival. These writers included the late South\u00a0African poet laureate Keorapetse Kgositsile, Don Mattera, Lebo Mashile,\u00a0Phillipa Yaa de Villiers, Napo Masheane, Gomolemo Mokae, Pitika Ntuli, Credo\u00a0Mutwa, Vonani Bila and David Maahlamela. The convergence of these wordsmiths in\u00a0Kimberley was no coincidence; the city has a long history with the creation as\u00a0well as the appreciation of literature.<\/p>\n

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With the establishment\u00a0of the Sol Plaatje University in Kimberley in 2014, many writers from near and\u00a0far visited the city, just as fortune hunters did at the height of the Diamond\u00a0Rush in the late 1800s. These writers include Franca Treur from the
Netherlands, Mamle Kabu and Martin Egblewogbe from Ghana, Chuma Nwokolo and\u00a0Bankole Omotoso from Nigeria, Wame Molefhe from Botswana, Elizabeth Williams\u00a0from the United Kingdom, Zukiswa Wanner from Kenya, Percy Zvomuya from
Zimbabwe, Abdullah al Wesali from Saudi Arabia as well as South African\u00a0wordsmiths Fred Khumalo, Flow Wellington, Phehello Mofokeng, Bongani Madondo,\u00a0Niq Mhlongo, Tuelo Gabonewe and Lesego Rampolokeng. That so many writers find\u00a0their way to the city gives testimony to the fact that the city indeed\u00a0appreciates literature and that books, which will always be relevant as long as\u00a0humans inhabit the world and tell stories, are the city\u2019s new diamonds. Of this\u00a0timelessness of stories, Ben Okri writes in The Mystery Feast<\/em>: Thoughts\u00a0on Storytelling<\/em>: \u201cStories appear to bend themselves to our time. That maybe\u00a0because, in order to exist, stories must intersect with time. The difficulties\u00a0human beings face, the enigmas of life, will not go away. They will not go away\u00a0till we are perfected. And we are not going to be perfected for a very long\u00a0time.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Also that we are\u00a0gathered here to witness the 130th anniversary of a library that has been in\u00a0the same address serving the local community since 1889, give credence to the\u00a0word as the new diamond that never cracks.<\/p>\n

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The only way we can\u00a0maintain our new diamonds is to keep reading and read our own, from Cape Town\u00a0to Cairo, from Madagascar to Morocco. Perhaps the new generation of African\u00a0writers will find our city a literary destination, if not a pilgrimage.<\/p>\n

However, as the city beginsto have books as its new diamonds, it will have to embrace and encourage the\u00a0telling of new stories in its various languages. These will be the stories that\u00a0will mirror our lives and our times. Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe in an essay\u00a0titled My Home under Imperial Fire<\/em> makes reference to an Igbo phrase\u00a0that says \u201cno man should enter his house through another man\u2019s gate\u201d. Chances\u00a0are plenty that we may not find a way into ourselves through stories told by\u00a0others from elsewhere.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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