BEYOND THE HORIZON

About the Book

Poems are my small piece of heaven: a unique and fascinating experience and pleasure. They communicate my emotions and experiences and everything I feel about and view love and life which are what everybody wants : to enjoy life to the fullest ,to love and to be loved - (F Jackson transcript)

About the Author

Simon Mautla Matlou was born in the late 60's and grew up in Ga- Seabe Village (Lepaaku Section)in Hammanskraal Region north of Pretoria in the Provice that was then called Transvaal. He started writing poems while in Seabe High School and those poems were never published. By the year 1994 he settled in Sun Valley, Mamelodi in Pretoria. He is currently staying in Durban, in the Province of Kwa- Zulu Natal with his wife and two children. He was greatly influenced by Poets like Ridyard Kippling, Don Mattera, Wally Serote, Mzwake Mbuli, Pascal Gwala, John Donne, Percy Besshe Shelly and Butler Yeats. In 2004 he was the runner up in the South African Police National Literacy Competition, the Project sponsored by Pretoria Newspaper, University of South Africa School of Language and Literacy Studies, Metro Home Choice, Van Schaick's Bookshop and Telkom South Africa with Poems 'Now where are you? and My lucky day." which are included in this book. He is currently working for the South African Police Services, attached to the Division Operational Response Services which is primarily dealing with South African Border intergrity. He has been travelling extensively in all nine provinces of South Africa on policing duties, interacting and sharing ideas and life experiences with persons from all walks of life. At the end of 2006, he was transferred from Pretoria Public Order Policing in Gauteng Province to Durban in Kwa- Zulu Natal to assist in policing of Port of Durban. He currently holds the rank of ColoneL in the South African Police Service and has a total of twenty years experience. Supplementary to National Diploma and Bachelor of Technology ( B Tech) from the University of South Africa, he has acquired Masters Degree in policing from Tshwane University of Technology. He loves to read anything interesting especially poems and short stories