OPINION PIECE: Our parents are miners.

Whether in a shaft, in a retail store, or working as petrol attendants.

We are working class.

We are miners.

WE ARE MARIKANA.

Who would have thought our generation would also witness how government massacres humans, workers, citizens?

The ANC is running the world's latest brutal neo-colony for the sake of global economic looting.

The resources of the Motherland protect the privileges of oppressors in the maintenance of economic apartheid.

Non-rich only, non-poor only, social instability...

16 August 2012

I remember watching the news.

I couldn't believe... I would never have conceived that I would live through state repression of a class struggle with a just cause.

A fake New South Africa.

A country where democracy serves as a smokescreen for colonial imperial powers to continue looting;

Plundering natural resources.

We are cheap labour; human commodities; wage slaves.

We were protesting for a decent minimum wage, only to be classified illegal demonstrators.

Striking, again, against a salary that keeps us poor.

We can't feed, clothe, educate our children - generational slavery.

From the sea to the hills, from the valleys and up the mountain, to the killing at the small koppie.

Wasn't the slaying of poor, angry, marginalised, exploited, human, native Africans supposed to stop?

To give your life to save the world is something great - 34 miners died for us.

Forget to remember

The Farlam commission of inquiry is like the Goldstone Commission report on the Bisho massacre;

The evidence given to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission to make the nation forget without justice being served;

I am the man in the green blanket, murdered by police in Marikana;

My name is Mgcineni "Mambush" Noki, a 34-year-old married father from Mqanduli in the Eastern Cape:

"He didn't speak for himself. He spoke for the workers."

Grief overflows reality

How much do you need to know before you do something?

Human forms consumed with selfish thoughts.

Today is a day of mourning.

Have a heart, be a soul, show your humanity.

My eyes are filled with tears.

This life and existence under which we are made to suffer... how much more? When will this end?

I am ready to leave this realm. I want to destroy all of this. I want this to end now.

I am not in love with this illusion.

I hate capitalism.

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