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RE: How much do you know about southern African history? // original poetry
It is a tragic history to be sure, of violent oppression and callous disregard. I find it a sad link between natives of America, and those in Africa, that in both cases their generosity to the invaders was abused.
where men make boundaries
saying one is deserving, and another starves
Divide and conquer seems prevalent throughout human history, but perhaps nowhere else have the results been as terrible as in Rwanda, Zimbabwe, South Africa... the list goes on. Thanks for sharing such a thoughtful and knowledgeable poem.
Thanks for your comment and most of all, I am glad you found the words meaningful. I fear the lines came out half-baked as is so often the case on this platform. I keep on thinking of edits but for now I am leaving it as it is.
As to our history, my friend.. we are all on this journey and I am confident we are walking in the right direction most of the time. At least those who I care about are doing that. Judging from your poetry, so are you. Have a great weekend.
Are the the South African Blacks going to repeat the disaster that Marxist Mugabe has brought on his fellow Zimbabweans by throwing( or killing) the white farmers off of the land? I have not heard any cogent rebuttal, that when the Dutch came to the Cape the vast majority of land, of what we now call South Africa, had no significant no. of indigenous people in it whatsoever? And is the average South African Black clear that marxism is a dead, bankrupt, vile system of theft and tyranny promoted only by gangsters? if they are not, someone had better appraise them forthwith! or the Blacks of South Africa may find themselves being mass murdered like the peasants of Russia, when the beloved marxist redistributors took complete control of the Motherland!
@trichmond68 Some days I agree with Steve Biko when he said South Africa needs communism, not because it's a good regime, but because it will unite the people. And eventually this unity will evolve into a true democracy. You see, the problem isn't a white vs. black thing, but a people vs. people thing. The tribes hate each other just as much as they hate the white man. It's sad, but it's true. The end goal should be to create a nation called South Africans, not zulus, and sothos, and vendas and boers. But South Africans!
You said it bro. I can hardly believe how far the politics has strayed from the proper Black Consciousness. People accused him of being racist but what he meant by blackness was an entirely different thing than race.
Biko's epitaph: One Azania One Nation. Very deliberate parting words if you ask me. Because it is both a country and a nation. He was a wise man indeed.
One has to fear the end result of nationalisation or expropriation of land as long as a program to counter tribalism and racism hasn't been pursued. Biko involved himself in programs of anti-racism along with social workers, psychologists and artists. I had the privilege of studying for a few years under one Dr. Saths Cooper. Brilliant minds where part of the struggle back then. Cooper is still a leading intellectual in his field today. The saddest thing is as soon as anything visionary or truly revolutionary is spoken about, it gets howled, heckled and blasted by the counter revolutionaries. Pathetic.