We are truly on our own.
Go to school, kids. Sing, dance, perform for your families for the love of it, not the system.
Sello sang “We Miss You Mandela.”
Brenda gave us “Black President.”
Lucky reminded us “I’m a Prisoner.”
Bra Hugh, Miriam, Letta, Caiphus even Mafokate and storytellers like Gibson Kente & Mbongeni Ngema used their voices to fight for our freedom.
Today, that same industry is ignored by the government it helped put in power.
And now its children cry themselves to sleep.
This is sad. We are on our own.