Class warfare: POEM
Julius Malema encourages his supporters to support the ANC Youth League yesterday after he was suspended and stripped of the league's presidency Picture: ELIJAR MUSHIANA
On this street you express the pain/ Of a world gone utterly insane/ Where education is the enemy/ And you ain’t poor if you have TV/ As one percent rob capitalism’s store/ To the rest they slam the door/ Their voice is the news today/ Whines about taxes they don’t pay
Bankers who want your sympathy
After killing the economy
Say they are too big to fail
And now you must for them bail
This water from holes they drilled
Drown in debt they’ve billed
And wonder why you now rise
With so much anger in your eyes
Now as cops beat down the protesters
Their tear gas rebuttal registers
Against skulls of war veterans
Claim it’s all over before it begins
But it is no longer authorities’ hour
As the people cease the power
There will be no more silence
In the face of this economic violence
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