Arts and Culture Minister Gayton McKenzie says the work of the late poet and author, Dr Diana Ferrus, has moved people across languages and generations. Ferrus died in Cape Town at the age of 72 on Friday after suffering a stroke a few weeks ago.
She is known for the poem Ive Come to Take You Home which was a tribute to Sarah Baartman . McKenzie says the writing helped focus international attention on the injustice of Baartmans treatment and is credited as a contribution to the repatriation of her remains in 2002. He says Ferrus poetry helped restore dignity to untold stories.
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