"anc" poems
The Destroyer of the division machine1
Had first to run on the Way of the Cross
To have souls over the long lived ruin.
Robben, Pollsmoor and Victor2 caused no loss
In the Staff Heritage of the Thembu3
Rulers, forever loved by their people,
From whom was learnt right fight ain’t to taboo.
Good farmers’ teeth run right through the apple;
Likely after the Hard Walk to Freedom4
The Son of Gadla and Nosekeni5,
When his Soul flies up to the Lord’s Kingdom,
Glass will keep his body, and not any
Stain will sully the Star of the Nation
Whose Light will shine for each generation.
1. The division machine: The Apartheid.
2. Robben, Pollsmoor and Victor: During twenty seven years Mandela was successively jailed at Robben Island, Pollsmoor and Victor Verster prisons.
3. Thembu: The tribe over which ruled Mandela’s ancestors.
4. Hard Walk to Freedom: In September 1953, Andrew Kunene, a co-militant of his, read out Mandela's "No Easy Walk to Freedom" speech at a Transvaal ANC meeting; the title was taken from a quote by Indian independence leader Jawaharlal Nehru, a seminal influence on Mandela's thought. The speech laid out a contingency plan for a scenario in which the ANC was banned.
5. Gadla (Henry Mphakanyiswa): Mandela’s father; Nosekeni ***** His mother.
Boniface
Jun 27, 2013
Jun 27, 2013 at 8:33 AM UTC
ANC and Joe Slovo
ANC took on the white-run system and won, we hoped
for a new free country and apartheid free country.
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.
Apr 2, 2017
Apr 2, 2017 at 10:21 AM UTC
Quite is what I need
less noise
more time to read
the world needs constant attention
but the headphones help a little
give thanks to anc
I just want space to be me
I cant help but mention
my rapid ascension
up past the tallest tree
with less noise in my ears
I will overcome fears
the quite will set you free
Dec 9, 2021
Dec 9, 2021 at 3:55 PM UTC
I think my career is beer
What a rhyme yo say its time
Can you, you copy my style!
You gat you know that. It be bags though once you knew
Coops,s you understand '
I'm ANC unmatched guys whale it so me to them cone I know home
My poems
, I homp it's joint the Jon you think it is
I'm almost done though. This is just great I'm ennobled you just believe that it is mom
Mar 1, 2015
Mar 1, 2015 at 5:03 PM UTC
Can the tho ugt
Oft his bet hat
The ide als sit
For all toh ear
Yet sim ply die
Ise eit now how
you exp ose and
cry ing out sti
fle tha twh ich
cou ld1 day fly
Ifo nly you had
not bee ngi ven
suc hch anc eto
inf ect mym ind
Tra gic ast tra
ffi cfi lls the
air bli ndo pen
you ree yes tof
ind thi sto bet
Rue.
Jun 3, 2018
Jun 3, 2018 at 2:37 AM UTC