A popular Zulu song about a young migrant worker who has left home to seek jobs in Johannesburg, based on a true incident.
We were sent by our parents
To search for our father’s child…
Another attack on the damaging effects of labour migrancy to South Africa. In this extract from a Tswana Praise Poem, the poet appeals movingly to Chief Molefi Kgafela, who ruled 1929-1936, to bring home all the young men and women from Cape Town, Natal, Johannesburg and Rustenburg.
Seek the strays, child of the Makuka,
Bring home the human strays…