i m dedicating it also to my
grandmother whom i think really played quite a lot of important roles especially for me when i was an activist
and being harassed by the police you will recall that in one thousand nine hundred and seventy six june sixteen the students of south africa boycotted the language of afrikaans as the
medium of the oppressor as they were sort of like really told that they must do everything in afrikaans
biologymathematics and
what about our languages
and i started asking questions and that s when my political education started and i joined later on the youth organization under the african national congress
you stay here and indeed
the police came because they ll just
arrest us and put us in jail and
release us
whenever they feel like after the twentieth or so so it was on the tenth of june and they came and they surrounded the house and my
grandmother switched off all the lights in the house
and opened the kitchen
and she said to them vusi 's here
and you 're not going to take him tonight i 'm tired of you having to come here harassing us while your children are
sleepingpeacefully in your homes he is here and you 're not going to take him i 've got a bowl full of boiling water the first one who comes in here gets it and they left
so who are they who says no more love poems now i want to sing a song of love for that woman who jumped the fences
pregnant and still gave
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