Forgotten in the fields

Poetry
Written By Sello Huma
Credit: Polina Rytova

Credit: Polina Rytova

Forgotten in the plantations

Left out in the cheap labour war

Digging up coal, gold

Uranium and platinum for minimum wages

 

We have been bloody robbed for ages

Caged by the 1913 Land Act

Same old story from the boss

History repeating itself for the Bantu race

Men chained on tractors to plough the land

For the slave masters

 

We still have no answers from the bullets cries that

Took away those great whispering souls lives at the Kopie

Our heroes gunned down

 

Buried in kopie graves, thrown in the deep end

For being brave like Sandra Bland and Tshepo Matloga

 

Sello Huma

Morwamphaka Sello Huma (Countrybard) is a South African Poet, writer and law student based in Johannesburg. His poems have been published in the Sol Plaatjie European Union Poetry Anthology (2015), Ons Klyntji International Zine (2018), and two issues of Writers space Africa—Love in Africa (February 2019) and Colours (May 2019). He is the author of Country Bard Blues: A Collection of Poems published in 2016. He is currently working on the second edition of his book Country Bard Blues and a photographic poetry book.

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