ANC at 100: Thousands Attend Celebration Rally
Banners of green, gold and black wave
In South African sunlight
Children in Pretoria
No longer wearing rags, praying for primers and uniforms,
To learn to be maids and servants
Bantu Education
Where all is separate, but not equal
Land of passbooks and endless lines,
Fines and violence,
Boys whoring themselves to ward off endless hunger
From what sweet well,
Did they find the courage,
To brave the lathi and demand their rights?
Banners of green, gold and black wave
In South African sunlight
(Inspired in part by my recent reading of Kaffir Boy, Power of One, and Master Harold and the Boys)
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