Anc and Joe Slovo
ANC and Joe Slovo
ANC took on the white -run system and won, we hoped
for a new free country an apartheid- free land
The “Rainbow Nation sprung to life reconciliation, dancing
in the streets, which have become crime-ridden by now.
But the ANC cannot rule forever, and it is fossilised
And has of lately written history that leaves out many.
Indian and white people who helped to end apartheid
Are being pushed aside like it was only a black affair.
Do you remember Joe Slovo and fought for a free Africa
For forty years, ah, but, he was white and a Jew, he gave
All he had for the cause, but now slowly like many Indians
Are pushed into the background.
I think the leadership ANC have been corrupted it will sink
To the level of Zimbabwe, they broke their promise to help
Soweto, but it is still there, Joe Slovo is no more.
I see it is difficult to get American readers to take an interest in
something that is not about the USA and sugar-coated love stories
"house on the Prairie stuff"
Copyright © Jan Oskar Hansen | Year Posted 2017
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