1. die toeskouers op the spectators at
Wanderers Wanderers
2. van ouds of the olden days
3. het beurt na beurt had over after over
4. kouend aan iets souts chewing on something
salty
5. stip intently
6. die spring the jump
7. van bal of ball
8. van kolfblad of cricket pitch
9. van kolf of bat
10. die lug in kring how it curls in the air
11. aanskou viewed
12. Nuwelandse spectators at Newlands
toeskouers (another cricket stadium)
13. lê-sit luiters afwesig lay-sitting obliviously
absent
14. met vetgesmeerde with shoulders oiled
oop skouers
15. besig om mekaar busy informing each other
oor pil en prohep about pills and allergy
medication
16. in te lig inform
17. tot hul dan heelwat until they, much later,
later
18. siek van hitteslag en sick of sun stroke and
komhoutsap alcohol
19. uitgeboul besef bowled out, realizes
20. die maan the moon
21. steek sagter as die stings softer than the sun
son
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, Explanation of the poem
1. die toeskouers op The poem starts with the
Wanderers words “die toeskouers”,
indicating (wat aandui)
the importance
(belangrikheid) of these
people. Also notice (let
op) the absence
(afwesigheid) of a capital
letter (hoofletter) at the
beginning of the
sentence, yet (tog) one is
used (gebruik) for the
name of the stadium,
which could be (kan
wees) another (nog)
indication (aanduiding) of
how important (belangrik)
this specific stadium is.
The setting (ruimte) is a
cricket stadium
(krieketstadion) in
Johannesburg.
This stanza is about
(handel oor) how
spectators (toeskouers)
watched (gekyk) cricket
back in the olden days at
Wanderers Stadium.
2. van ouds It seems as though there is
a reminiscent tone
(stemming van verlange
met die herinneringe van
die ou dae) present which
is further (verder)
highlighted (uitgelig) with
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