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In 2006 the South African poet/singer Gert Vlok Nel was a hype in Holland. His cd 'Beautiful in Beaufort-Wes’ was all over the place. In the Bimhuis in Amsterdam he played two songs: ‘Beautiful in Beaufort-Wes’ and Epitah’
Gert Vlok Nel, a former student of English, Afrikaans and History and a former guide, barman and guard, paints a nostalgic and melancholy portrait of his youth in Beaufort-Wes, a town in the South African countryside where mainly poor whites live. His father worked on the railways. Vlok Nel’s chansons are extremely depressing, enchanting and almost hypnotic, and they are written in a non-everyday, old-fashioned and yet innovative Afrikaans. Vlok Nel, also a talented poet, wrote 'Om te lewe is onnatuurlik' (Living is Unnatural; 1993), which comprises a series of poems that are as personal as they are painful, was awarded the Ingrid Jonker Prize.
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This video was recorded in 2006 in Bimhuis Amsterdam VPRO Vrije Geluiden: music program made by the Dutch public broadcast organization VPRO
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