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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=400242" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>When times are bad</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">When times are bad<br>and I am with my hands in my hair<br>and black foreigners from all over Africa<br>overnight becomes citizens<br>and have more rights as a citizen than me<br>and affirmative action<br>puts her claws into my life<br>then I wonder about justice<br>and when merit and experience<br>will ever again apply<br> <br>where my ancestors Joost Strydom<br>from Liefenshoek in the Netherlands<br>as a merchant seaman of the VOC<br>in 1678 came to Cape Town, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">married his pretty well know wife<br>Maryna Ras who with a horse<br>could alone ride days long to Cape Town<br>with whom noblemen tried to have relationships, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">where the indigenous zulu-xhosa-pondo-swazi people<br>are originating from a group<br>that during the same time<br>immigrated far away out of the north<br>from eMbo at the big lakes in central Africa<br>under the leadership of Nguni and later Dlamini</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and then I wonder how<br>this country rather belongs to them<br>and they have to have work opportunities before me</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and if you now say anything<br>about the new migration out of the whole of Africa<br>for which the country’s borders are now wide open<br>(in such a way that South Africans<br>must now get visas for Great Britain) <br>you are seen as xenophobic</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and then there are citizens from right over Africa<br>who become South Africans overnight<br>attaining more rights than you<br>who forced by law<br>get secure job opportunities</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and do people from Mozambique murder<br>Eugene Terreblance, <br>drug dealers from Nigeria<br>are caught by the local police</div><div style="margin:10px 0">while against your will<br>you were forced into an army, into a war<br>still faithfully pay your taxes<br>when and where you have a job</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and the current government<br>tries to stay in power<br>while Aids devours its voter numbers</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and you as a white man<br>are despised by the current regime, <br>are treaded into the ground<br>while the country are falling to pieces<br>and then you pray<br>to Him (the God of the universe) who controls everything<br>to drastically intervene<br>rather than rousing people<br>for a civil war.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">[Reference: VOC Verenigde Oost Indiëse companje.]</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>
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and I am with my hands in my hair
and black foreigners from all over Africa
overnight becomes citizens
and have more rights as a citizen than me
and affirmative action
puts her claws into my life
then I wonder about justice
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