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makwerekwere South African "okies"

  1. Posted on Wednesday 28 May 2008 - 10:59
    opash2k
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    You seen dem southafrican okies. Yes the ragged backdrop of dusty people crowded in informal housing . Look at them when at lunch hour they watch your shuffling feet towards eating places in the 'I will survive look' . Watch them when they cuddle their sick in bony embraces you would think that would heal. Stare at them when the hollow eyes of their kids question existence while tummies play tom-toms
    Then ask them why they come . Then tell them to go back like you did white men . Yes that is the right thing to do . Then see if your household will eat . Ha, they gone but still the prices inflate still the mines exploit still the politician promises.
    By god dem okies cant take the blame. I wont let em if you let me tell you why. Coz its the capital it called them to south told them they'd be able to feed their family .Told them to go south . Why because the more and poorer the labourers the lower the wages . They call them down south till they crumble in polythene outside the city of gold having walked miles hungry that they would eat each other if they could. The capital comes to take them to pick gold and make it pay so little you couldn’t feed yourself let alone your starving family back home
    The white men been doing it the black successors inherited it. Then why now they run em okies down .Is it coz the okies tried earning nothing or their bloody rheum and cancerous coughs plus numerous letters from home askin the horrible question -when? That turned the okies clever and the mines would have them no more? That capital turns to southafricans and said your poverty is of them okies takin your jobs and tells them to run em down? Had too much okie blood been crushed under collapsing gold dust that never was avenged and now haunted with the potency of rebellion that the capital had to call on vigilantes to rout them okies
    Either way you see what am drivin to
    its not the okies that make us jobless hungry and miserable
    its the damn capital feedin on our continent as we feed on ourselves
    *okies-john steinback's GRAPES OF WRATH
    Otiato Guguyu

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