THE ROLL-CALL

by George Shea

Not all men,
Nor any other book
Than the register will bear me out,
That all are present and well.
But to make sure,
Let us have a roll call.
And if none answers to his name,
Know that it is for your own good
And mine that he has fallen;
Fallen never to rise!

Now hang on my lips;
And listen to the roll call.
Johannes Nkosi!
Vuyisile Mini!
Wilson Khayingo!
Z. Mkhaba!
Washington Bongco!
Babla Saloojee! They are all not there!
'Tis enough and done for a while
Done with the patriots of my motherland.

I know the meaning of the tears
That I see in your eyes.
And the meaning of the spilt blood.
Of the sons and daughters of Africa;
By men who have shelved humanism!
Upheld injustice;
And aligned themselves
With animalistic tendencies
In the deepest South of the Seventh Hell!

My hatred and anger is beyond pardon;
And there shall be peril, havoc and the tempest!
To avenge and bring to justice
Those fascists,
Who have lost a human touch
And forced man to be against man;
Brother against brother
In the South of the Seventh Hell!

The distant hour is surely at hand
I shall no longer be a stranger in my own land.
Nor landless, voteless helot of circumstances;
Oppressed, persecuted and hunted,
By the disciples of Hitler and fascism.
In the deepest South of the Seventh Hell!

Antje Krog,
a 17 year old Afrikaans schoolgirl
has stunned her
backveld Kroonstad
community with
this poem.
Where there is so
much hatred a germ
of love yet grows.

MY BEAUTIFUL LAND

"Look, I am building myself a
land where skin means nothing,
just your understanding.

Where no goat face in parliament
shouts to keep verkramp
things permanent

Where I can love you
And lie next to you in the grass
without saying 'yes' in
church.

Where we can play the guitar
at night and sing

And bring jasmines for each
other.

Where I don't have to feed you
poison if a strange dove calls
in my ear.

Where no divorce court can dim
my children's eyes,

Where White and Black, hand
in hand

Will bring peace and love to
my beautiful land."

African National Congress
South Africa

provisional hqquqs box 680 morogoro tanzania

NOVEMBER

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1973