<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=400061" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>We did not own this country (in answer to Mathews Phosa)</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">We did not own this country<br>the Lord gave it to our ancestors<br>and when they stepped ashore here, <br>hordes came from eMbo out of the north<br>and the country also did not belong to them.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let you see us as intruders, <br>you yourself are intruders, <br>a multitude of people out of the tribes<br>of Zulu, Xhosa, Swazi en Pondo<br>came from the big lakes under leadership<br>of chief Dklamini and later chief Nguni.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Our ancestors made a sacred covenant with God<br>to be able to survive<br>and still this relationship is held high<br>as forever God remains the same</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and the people that now governs<br>do not represent me, are proclaiming laws <br>that are oppressing my Afrikaner people and me, <br>making me a third rate citizen</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and I did not surrender this country<br>even less have left it<br>or have neglected any civil duties<br>and I am waiting on the salvation<br>coming out of the hand<br>of the almighty God.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">[References: “Bulala Bathakathi” and “ons het ons land verlaat” (we left the country / land) by Mathews Phosa. (The poet Mathews Phosa is the premier of the Orange Free State province) ]</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Gert+Strydom">Gert Strydom</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=400061" data-title="We did not own this country (in answer to Mathews Phosa) de Gert Strydom" data-description="We did not own this country the Lord gave it to our ancestors and when they stepped ashore here, hordes came from eMbo out of the north and the country also did not belong to them. Let you see us as intruders, you yourself are intruders, a mul..."></div> </div> </div>

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