What Makes a Man King – Zweluthini?

 

 

            We loved you from way back

In history, revered your warriors and your wives,

We demonstrated outside international embassies,

During days of Apartheid,

We loved your culture your history

And traditions,

We envied all of Africa for its Peoples,

That love is still within our hearts

And minds, during sad and tragic times.

 

            Shaka-Zulu has just one wife,

Just one for all his love,

Now calling up the elders –

Their tears must rain down for

All of Africa, where your very

Culture, could signal, your own death.

 

            The Zulu, The Xhosa be

Proud determined peoples,

Races that we are still in earnest

Trying to save,

            But the battle ground is not

Of spears and guns, but of a malady

Called Aids.

 

            Does twenty wives make you man

Or make you King?

That policy be all yours,

But for sake of all your children’s tears,

Seek a modern solution,

For twenty wives with HIV,

Disembarks your people from this Earth,

An Earth that deeply mourns your loss,

An Earth less rich without your presence.

 

            Forty-six million worldwide

Makes mockery of giving life,

And eleven percent in South Africa herself,

Makes floodgates of my tears,

You sit upon the threshold of extinction

While we beg and pray for you,

And we sing the song UBUNTU

And hail the Xhosa and the Zulu.

 

            ZUMA, KING ZWELUTHINI,

MANDELA, ANAN,

We never fought for your homeland,

Just to see you kill yourselves,

For in truth it only takes

One man, one man with love for woman

And his children,

One King to bring an

Attitude of change,

And halt the spread of false convictions.

 

For convicted in all the seed that’s

Spread, at the whim of this disease;

A life that only quarrels death,

Before the life has even lived.

 

In truth my King A Man’s prowess,

Is not judged by how many he

            Can Kill,

But how he himself can

Change a failing attitude,

And acknowledge stubborn truths.

 

            Sing a song

Four Triple Six Four,

Stay with we on EARTH,

We love the all of Africa,

And bring about reform.

 

 

Michael J Waite 7^th February 2010.