CULTURE AS A WEAPON OF STRUGGLE

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the struggle is food

age-old rule of bloodhounds

gives birth to revolt

the sharp teeth of class struggle

chew off whole epochs

we have travelled a long way

in soweto

we were matadors

trickling bullnosed war tanks

and learned

how much a brick

can bleed a bullet to death

– Bheki Langa, Isandlwana Incarnate’, written in 1979 on the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Isandlwana.

CULTURE AS A WEAPON OF STRUGGLE