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Manenburg by Abigail George | Poems Rethabile Likes Manenburg by Abigail George There're people living there Grandmothers and aunties, young men, uncles, ou toppies Their bodies need seawater, they hunger for it Men who need employment and not the old sores of apartheid Children who need parental supervision They're all soldiers, aren't they, in a way? Some do not know that action is the antidote to hardship, struggle Some go to bed with a gun under their pillow The children play at shooting each other This country is in need of spiritual warfare, not mass hallucination, not reckless endan...

You Will Forget by Chenjerai Hove | Poems Rethabile Likes You Will Forget by Chenjerai Hove If you stay in comfort too long You will not know The weight of a water pot On the bald head of the village woman You will forget The weight of three bundles of thatch grass On the sinewy neck of the woman Whose baby cries on her back For a blade of grass in its eyes Sure, if you stay in comfort too long You will not know the pain Of child birth without a nurse in white You will forget The thirst, the cracked dusty lips Of the women in the valley On her way to the headman...