Full of Shit.

"People run away as Turkish riot policemen fire teargas on Taksim square on June 11, 2013." - www.rt.com

I have watched with astonishment the developments in Cape Town regarding the protestations against the bucket toilet system.  A couple of things about the situation have got me wondering about the true state of South African society.  Perhaps it would be fitting to explain exactly what transpired for those whom, for whatever reason, might not be aware of said developments.  Initially, a group of protestors threw bags of human faeces at the entrance steps of the Western Cape legislature.  This was followed, a few days later, by the spilling of contents of full buckets from the bucket toilet system being used in many Western Cape ghettos, onto a bus that Western Cape premier Helen Zille was travelling on.  At this point we cannot be sure if the same group or another did this. All this excrement throwing simply because people don't have flushing toilets.

Response to Ntate Lefifi Tladi

Thobela Ntate Tladi,

Leina lame ke Thabiso, wa ga Nkoana.  Ke Sedingwane, Makolometsha, ngwan’a noka e kgolo, Peba. I am a self-proclaimed wordsmith who recently won the best poetry performance at the Zabalaza theatre festival ya Baxter Theatre as well as the slam poetry competition ya Slipnet held in Stellenbosch.  I have been writing and reciting poetry for the better part of the last fifteen years of my life.  I have a blog (thabisonkoana.blogspot.com) in which I post some of my poetry and any essays I write for college purposes, which I deem to be of benefit for the general public – all about topics in music, musicology or ethnomusicology.  I am the eldest son of a man and woman who are workers, blue collar, from Hammanskraal and Kagiso respectively: a man and a woman who played important roles (directly and indirectly) in the political liberation of Azania.  I was born in Kagiso myself and raised in Diepkloof. 

It is very important that you know exactly who I am so as to be able to contextualise this letter and my work.