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wendy maqwazima Aug 2015
instead of making them feel at home
we are telling them to go back home
have we got no shame calling our brothers and sisters foreigners in their own motherland?

what happened to Ubuntu?
umntu ngu mntu ngabantu?
has the long walk to freedom not been walk for us?

there will be no freedom in Africa if we still believe in brutality rather than humanity
there will be no freedom in Africa if  don't understand the meaning of struggle, poverty

yesterday we were crying for freedom
praising and promoting the spirit of togetherness,today we stone the same African brother who held our hands in the years of apartheid and gave us hope!

why do we have to be so cruel not so fucken cool!
Nelson Mandela did not die for this!
Walter sisulu did not die for this!
our black brothers and sisters in sharpville did not die for this!

where did it all go wrong?

we claim to be the land of peace yet we do not know the meaning of forgiveness
we claim to be the land of great leaders and born dreamers yet we do not know   the meaning of Ubuntu!

I am not proud of what this land has become....
Ngoko lwazi lwam, ngokwe zimvo zam
Akhomntu uthanda umthetho
Ngoba womke umntu uziva ngathi akakwazi kuziphatha ngokwakhe, ngathi akana mthetho
Umntu uziva ngathi uhluthwa amandla akhe
Kodwa, kwelinye icala
Umthetho ubalulekile
Umthetho uthulisa impixano
Ukhona oyena mthetho ungundoqo
Umthetho ka Mdali
Umthetho we Ndalo
LooMthetho luThando
UThando lokuthanda abanye
UThando lokuzithanda
UThando olunyulu, uThando olunzulu
UThando luxando lokwenza
UThando luxando lokwenziwa
UThando luxando lokwenzana
Into endiyaziyo kukuba lomthetho sivumelana ngawo sonke
Intonayo asiwazi sonke
Umanyano emthethweni woThando yindyebo yobomi naphakade
Ngelizwi lakhe ndiyonela
Ngoncumo lwakhe ndiyoneliseka
Ukuhleka kwakhe kuyafudumeza
Ubuqu bakhe benza ndifune ukusondela
Ubukho bakhe benza uvalo
Ngalolonke ixesha unexesha lokusabela
NguMonde lowo
Isandla sakhe asikude ukunceda
BubuNtu obo
Igama lakhe yayifanele nguThando
Leyo isentliziyweni
Engqondweni ungamazi ngobulumko
Leyo isebuchotsheni
Ndithetha ngaye, andithethi naye
Ngokuthetha ngaye bubuncwane
Yena uyazazela, uyazingca
Noba uyamazi, ngesidima
Noba awumazi, ngesithozela
Ubuhle bukaMdali
Ubuhle beNdalo
Ubuhle ngaphakathi nangaphandle
Ubuhle njengesibhakabhaka nolwandle
Igamalakhe yayifanele nguNobuhle
Ndisathetha ngaye
Ngoba umntu akanconywa esiva

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