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Minal Govind Mar 2016
Eyes wide open,
mind tightly shut,
we play victims to the postman
slotting news and letters
where little light filters through,
only as he sees fit.

Grotesque, gross manufacturers
spewing out page after page after page
of page three scandals -
of rich brats waxing lyrical,
American hip-hop DUIs,
fat cats cat-fighting.

Media
breast-feeds her gullible men
and milks the misfortunes.

We are part of the orchestra -
synchronised puppets looking to our
Master
to tell us
how
to read the notes.

Outside
there are flimsy flyers
advertising freedom
that have morphed into paper-planes,
but are impenetrable of ignorant masses,
flitting around the heads of the blind -
like cartoon characters after
being beaten up by
fists.

It is injustice.
Peel the scales from your eyes
and open the flood-gates, let forth the criticism!

Ask why an American singer's ten minute jail sentence
is more important than an Afghan girl's sentencing to be gang-*****.
Ask who the ten percent of the South African population are that receive sixty percent of our gross national income and how to alter that socio-economic gap.
Ask what is to become of learners who pass with thirty percent and if that is even possible when books aren't being delivered to schools.
Ask where one can find manifestos instead of accusations from each political party.

Do not let them dictate
your truths as
CAPITALISED LETTERS
with no urgency.
Do not let them confine
your insight to the ink on a page.

We are worth more than glossy sensationalism.
We are worthy of urgent honesty, transparency and enlightenment -
herein lies true freedom.

The liberation of the mind.
The uncoiling fist of a freedom fighter revealing the truth held within.

Amandla awethu.
Utat'Oliver Tambo
Noba sele engamathambo
Kodwa siqina ngaye mathambo
Eselula awakhe amathambo
Wazinikezela ukuze siqine amathambo
Wasenza ubhabho lobhabho lwakhe
Wasenza ithambo lethambo lakhe
Waqotywa awakhe amathambo
Ukuze kuqine awethu amathambo
Ingqele isitya awakhe amathambo
Ukuze komelel'awethu amathambo
Amathambo azele intsini
Intsini eyenza imfudumalo
Imfudumalo ekhulisa amathambo
Ukukhula okomeleza amathambo
Akomelela akhangele ubulumko
Ubulumko obufundisa ngothando
Kolothando kuzalwe amatsha amathambo
Ulutsha oluzobe lulahlekile uba alwazi ngoTambo
Ulutsha olabuyiswa ekulahlekeni nguTambo
Iintsapho ezasiwa enkululekweni nguTambo
Ilizwe elakhutshwa emakhamandeleni nguTambo
Ilizwe elabuyiselwa ebutyebini nguTambo
Ilizwe elabuyiselwa ezandleni labanikazi balo nguTambo
Isizwe esabuyiselwa ekukhanyeni nguTambo
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