madibasia(Wednesday 31st of December 2008 09:52:30 AM)
No one forced these migrant workers to get on the "Coal Train". Most of the workers from outside SA are illegal, they take the jobs from bonafide SA citizens.
I grew up in white SA. I too, had to eat shit to survive. Fuck you all who say that it is a one sided affair.
Just look to Zimbabwe to see how well it is doing under Robert Mugabe and the expulsion of white farmers. there was a time when all had a job... It is not a one sided affair.
Ian3985(Thursday 25th of December 2008 06:07:15 AM)
anybody know who the strat-slinging, guitarist is?
such an angry and beautiful song.
deatha44(Thursday 11th of December 2008 11:52:08 AM)
I blame the greedy foreigners
deatha44(Thursday 11th of December 2008 11:51:15 AM)
WOW!
muzak77(Wednesday 12th of November 2008 10:29:23 AM)
I really regret about your father.
Thank you for the reply.
DrShellyLR(Tuesday 11th of November 2008 12:45:00 PM)
omg i[solid harmony+revealation choir] sang this with Hugh about 5years ago in the barbican London. A fantastic+inspirational+creative+warm gentleman
notcomatose(Monday 10th of November 2008 07:49:33 PM)
Jesoby, You must believe that there is an Easter Bunny. "Can't blame the foreign mining companies"with guns, whips and the controlling white Dutch folk who believe they own the country and enslave the blacks. They would shoot and kill parents and their children for demonstrating for education for their kids. Knowledge is power. Sure they would have done the right thing if you only asked them nicely. Ummm. You might be naive.
notcomatose - I take it the song was written 15 or more years ago in which case of course the situation was indeed very different though I doubt the average miner is a lot better off now.
notcomatose(Tuesday 11th of November 2008 07:36:54 AM)
You are probably right. Seems that I have heard that parts of Southern Africa, and in Western African continent, or Congo they still enslave men and boys to work in streams to pan for diamonds. There was a recent movie with Sean Penn in it about the poliltical continuing problem. They steal boys and men from their villages under pressure of gun barrels to work for their corrupt cartels who likely pay off the local governments. Many have such difficult lives.
