- Title
- A cultural magazine - eKapa
- Creator
- Labour Research Service
- Subject
- LRS
- Date Issued
- 1986
- Date
- 1986
- Type
- text
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/250684
- Identifier
- vital:52038
- Description
- These are bitter times in our lives. Crossroads have become a fountain of pain from which all are forced to drink. What do the vultures want with us? Our children cry day and night from hunger and the cold, and now, the ever falling rain. You see we have become a symbol. A symbol of defiance and of the courage of all our struggling people. This too is a part of our land, so why must we be moved? Some of the community have sold out for silver. They are now like cochcroaches in sour-milk. The police with all their guns, could not do their business here. I read of Ayanda Silika. He is dead now. The police took him away. They said that he shot a policeman from Pretoria. The police said that they had to do their business early in the morning. Why could they not come in the brightness of the sun, for all to see? Because, we had made this place for us. That is a reason why our houses are burnt and our lives are scattered. Ayanda Solika was 23 when they killed him. In 1976 he was 13 years old when Hector Petersen was killed. Like so many of these young comrades who battle without fear. I get strength from all this. The embers of Soweto 76 and the embers of Crossroads, are part of the same fire. And the Phoenix always rises from the ashes. Tomorrow we will still be here. And those who have gone will come back again. And we will live here like before. And the vultures can come, but those who run will be few. We the many will stand for we are gaining strength. Even now we are building again. Have they not heard our song of our people who fall, like leaves from a tree, but the tree still stands. That is a song of our lives.
- Format
- 63 pages
- Format
- Publisher
- Labour Research Service
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Labour Research Service
- Rights
- No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without prior permission from the publisher
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