Nothing's Changed (poem)
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Nothing's Changed is a poem by Tatamkhulu Afrika.
The poem is set in District Six, an area near Cape Town in South Africa. The poet describes a local resident's anger at the new presence of a haute cuisine restaurant contrasting with the local working men's cafe, describing the new establishment as "whites only." The poem is suggesting that not enough has changed since apartheid is supposed to have ended. This poem is an autobiographical poem. the poet returns to the wasteland that was once his home and relives the anger he felt when the area was first destroyed.
The poem has been included in the AQA Anthology for study at GCSE.
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