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The End of the Rainbow.

In the wake of movements such as Cape Independence & other Afrikaner nationalist movements seeking self-determination within South Africa, what (black) people fail to see is that South Africa was never united to begin with & as the poem below states "kinship cannot be forced." When Apartheid was said to have ended, nobody questioned who made South Africa, why & how indigenous people came to be in South Africa. Now, we find ourselves in a land that is almost fighting against us as indigenous people & that has a very uncertain foundation. AT THE END OF THE RAINBOW 1. The land was bare, it was the wilderness  2. We tamed, ploughed & removed some illness  3. In separate lands, a language each  4. But today, this they no longer teach  5. Before a single foreign ship came  6. We could beasts & fire tame  7. Now, with new devices we seek to return our lands  8. In a modern world, we've embraced new innovations in the same lands  9...

The man from Mbango...

From bussling markets to mosquito-filled wilderness areas.  Where will this continent be in the future?  The electricity keeps cutting, the mosquitoes keep stinging & the matatu exhaust pipes keep gushing carbon monoxide fumes.  The ethnic genocides keep happening & the xenophobia keeps discriminating.  Everybody wants to be famous but fame is not wealth & in this land wealth isn't easy.  The troops of malnourished kids thrown aimlessly on paved & unpaved streets.  The Ubuntuist Utopia, if only it had a bit more capitalist indigenous folk & less communists.  I'm no pessimist but some of you give me little hope in a better time in future.  You reap what you sow & you will definetly reap the hate you sowed.  Who am I? To me, I am but a shadow in an unknown town but who am I to you?  I should mean nothing to you but politics allows me to be on equal footing as the famous.  Wha...