It uses a patois of English and Afrikaans and a few choice obscenities of the sort that pepper any South African conversation. In fact, it is pretty mild in comparison with the real thing. It has a bit to say about sex and race and has a little fun at the expense of the racially demented. It was intended to be a bouncy number for reading aloud.
Trouble is, everyone reading it aloud has got the poem into trouble.
The broadcasting services, back in 1972, swiftly banned it because, they complained, it was calculated to give offence. Of course it was. Immediately, the broadcasting services got wind of it, they promptly banned it again. This time, I must assume, because it was politically incorrect. And that sort of thing is frowned upon by the new apparatchiks of the state-run South African Broadcasting Corporation.