Mine workers, of Hugh Masekela, shared by Patricia Abrahams Hendricks

Mine workers

There is a train that comes from Namibia and Malawi
there is a train that comes from Zambia and Zimbabwe,
There is a train that comes from Angola and Mozambique,

From Lesotho, from Botswana, from Swaziland,
From all the hinterland of Southern and Central Africa.
This train carries young and old, African men
Who are conscripted to come and work on contract
In the golden mineral mines of Johannesburg
And its surrounding metropolis, sixteen hours or more a day
For almost no pay.

Deep, deep, deep down in the belly of the earth
When they are digging and drilling that shiny mighty evasive stone,
Or when they dish that mish mesh mush food
into their iron plates with the iron shank.
Or when they sit in their stinking, funky, filthy,
Flea-ridden barracks and hostels. 

 

They think about the loved ones they may never see again Because they might have already been forcibly removed
From where they last left them
Or wantonly murdered in the dead of night
By roving, marauding gangs of no particular origin,
We are told. they think about their lands, their herds
That were taken away from them
With a gun, bomb, teargas and the cannon.
And when they hear that Choo-Choo train
They always curse, curse the coal train,
The coal train that brought them to Johannesburg.

 

 

Diversity said it all.

 

Control the food supply, and you control the people.

Large numbers of people, are killed to scare others that might share the sympathy of a better live and future. People are removed from natural resource competition in many ways, such as we experience FIFA during 2010.

The longer you kept the people in a state of ignorance, they will not realize that their own governments are their worst enemies. These governments help to keep the cost of living rising, while they make you believe something else. Poverty are growing faster then ever and this create a bigger vacuum between the have it all and the have nothing.

Skills learning are on purpose created, that only a hand few will benefit. Only a hand few will receive bursaries to pursue their careers. 90% and more of the final year secondary pupils will end up without a job. That is why the only true form of wealth are inside skills.

Some people will never accept you for who you are. No matter whether you Disable, African or Asian, hostile environments will always be there. We will always be people with a different education culture, religion culture, race culture or a gender culture. Meaning there is no harm in being diverse.