remembering my heroes …

Oliver Reginald Tambo
(ANC President)

Solomon Mahlangu
( MK Cadre executed by Apartheid Regime)

Chris Hani
(Leader of South African Communist Party & ANC Leader, assassinated in 1993)

Steve Biko
(Leader of the Black Consciousness Movement, brutally murdered by Apartheid Security Forces)

Patrice Lumumba

Amilcar Cabral

Jawaharlal Nehru

Winnie Mandela, Nelson Mandela & Joe Slovo

The Logo for the ANC’s Armed Wing – The Spear of the Nation, Umkhonto-we-Sizwe or MK

Thabo Mbeki, Govan Mbeki,  Walter Sisulu & Nelson Mandela

Langston Hughes

Fidel Castro & Samora Machel

WE REMEMBER YOU

WE HONOUR YOU

WE SALUTE YOU

double-helixed uBuntu

double-helixed uBuntu.

these interwoven veins,
dna,
double-helixed,

microscopic,
binding us, all of us,
together, as one,

species, one race,
human,

me & you

us,
all,

through
this common
shared
truth:

‘I am because you are’*

all of us
together
as one

me & you = uBuntu*

* – uBuntu is an isiXhosa/isiZulu concept that espouses the “belief in a universal bond of sharing that connects all humanity”