Why Do We Want to Kill Our Half Brothers and Half Sisters?

South Africans: Why you are cruel to others?
Have you thought clearly about this xenophobia thing?
Do you know that were celebrating together this World Cup thing?
Do you know that we are all Africans?

Why don't you want other Africans?
Do you know that we all have one colour?
Do you know that we are all on one planet?
Do you know that we share one God?

These people are good to us
Losing them is like losing hope
We must show humanity
Let us welcome them with our warm hands

Some of them are good to us
They make business opportunities for us
Sometimes they help us
We share the same skin colour

-Noluyolo Zanendaba

Youth Day

I saw them running in the streets of Soweto
Crying for the freedom -
freedom of speech, good education, good services
which they were taught in Afrikaans that they don't want

They wanted to be taught in their mother language,
but the apartheid people refused.
The blood was all over Soweto
(that was the day Hector Peterson disappeared)

Their hero Nelson Mandela heard them cry,
and he said, "Don't worry; everything will be all right."
He spent 27 years in jail, just for us
He is the man among men

We are free today because of him
Every language is equal now, by law
We can sing and dance now,
show the world triumph over the humanity

He wrote the future
and we must not jeopardise it

-Noluyolo Zanendaba