The Criminal Doesn't Know When To Stop
-a proverb of the dead of Avalon Cemetery
(In Memory Of The Victims Of Mindless Violence)
You see my brada those smart
Looking smug faced white nonatjies
Rich women bro' neh each
One of them carries a scar
Of humiliation in their hearts
And they know it he he he...
Ek se this is a black man's country
We rob the white ousies every night
We rape them day light nine nine brahs
Djy sien it's easy groot mahn since well
Ons chee ddi garden boy the tjotjo
And we sommer kill the kitchen meit
And ons ginger ddi miesies en ddi kitchen meit
We kill her and sell her heart to the witchdoctors
It makes good medicine to bring good luck
Ons es min geworry because ons
Vortel ddi gatas ddi blokom and the majiyane
Lies to the magistrate and we're out
Ha ha ha
Now the three R's you see there budah...
Rose is a Catholic she won't tell
Rebeca es gekatzenloerie mot a teacher
Hau how can she tell the rubbish
Rose is married to the boepons preacher
Neh! neh my mother's child she won't tell
We rape the white women not caring what
Their husbands will do because we know
Because they don't want to lose their marriages
This is a black man's country
And we kill their dogs and their servants
And then we gang rape the white women and stick
Broken beer bottles in their bleeding poenankies
And we take every thing and we live
And you my brother I am going to initiate you
Tonight we attack the shop of the mememe and then
You see that Susana is the woman for you and we
Will help you and you will rape but remember
She is not your wife to be so you must work fast
And when you satisfied you must stick the broken
Beer bottle in her poenankie remember the last act
Is a crucial part of the initiation of into
The life of a lawbreaker and a fugitive from justice
Here.Touch my blood.Shake my hand you're part
And parcel of this underground outfit'he says
I take the empty beer bottle and smash it
Into his grinning face and I must admit that sometimes
It hurts to be a black man in South Afrca without
Being ashamed of the color of your skin every time
You hear of an outrage of a crime of mindless being
Committed anywhere in our country but we have become
Too used to criminality and corruption and have you
Seen how brazen our criminal politicians have become?
Ann maybe you too my brother would feel nothing
If some idiot armed with a nice broken bottle attacks
Your favorite sister and rapes her in broad day light
But if somebody wants to make love to my wife he better
Find her in the right mood because she is
Armed And Dangerous
GLOSSARY
Avalon.....The largest cemetery in Africa
nonatjies...term of fake respect for a white woman
ek se...I say
ousies...ladies
djy sien....you see
groot mahn....big brother
ons chee ddi...we give the
garden boy...a male worker at the property of the white people who must
maintain and keep the place tidy
sommer.......just
kitchen meit...a domestic worker
ons ginger die miesies...we rape the white woman
en ddi kitchen meit...and the domestic worker as well
ons es min geworry....we are not bothered/we don't care
tjotjo...a bribe
ons vortel ddi gatas ddi blokom...we lie to the police
majiyane...a lawyer
bbudah...term of endearment/fondness
gekatzenlorie mot...married to
hau! exlamation of surprise
poenankies...the female sexual organ
poem by Ngaka Motaung
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