Forfeiting Their Right [rev.] Poem by Margaret Alice Second

Forfeiting Their Right [rev.]



As I read the history of the Afrikaans tribe in
Africa my ideas came full circle; they'd fled
colonial power & survived British wars just
to turn into bullies - submerging Africa in a
hundred years of their own, worse than

Slavery, suppression - forfeiting rights to
custodianship of freedom given the non-
respect revealed for human rights of other
races, they were spared a bloodbath by
Nelson Mandela & ANC; African leaders

Today need hurdle 500 years of colonial
oppression & 100 years of intense hatred
against them; where can their integrity &
intelligence derive - where should they
obtain land & possessions: the previous

Regime's men appropriated farms, built
railway lines to their own production units -
today they complain about Government?
What did they do to prepare our brethren
for governing this country - where are the

Colleges to teach African students about
public service and moral integrity, all they
ever saw were human-right infringements -
an immoral State taking everything away?
Boer British concentration camp survivors

Showed no mercy to African peoples, yet
were forgiven - let them help bring about
a new age instead of condemning growth
of our stumbling, beautiful democracy…

[10 October 2014]

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