Unsung Heriones - Lillian Ngoyi

Heroines this column is an imperative reminder of our struggle and that this democracy did not come on a silver platter. “So we have to cautiously practice our freedom, celebrating it responsibly… to better our lives.
As we seek to recognize and embrace our living heritage, we should also be in search of our local Icons whom we don't read or hear about?

I wish allude a revolutionary song,
Lullabies commemorating the ‘cry our beloved country,
Seeking comfort in the pen & paper…
On the street walls & bill boards will I write of…

Lillian Ngoyi [1911—1980] has played a significant role in South African politics. And today we celebrate Women's’ Month through courageous icon women like her.
Was a nurse and became a clothing factory machinist, andgot involved in labour action with the Garment Workers Union.
Joined the ANC during the 1950s defiance Campaign. A principled stand, courage and gift as a public speaker helped advance quickly into leadership of the ANC Women's League.
A founder member of FEDSAW in 1954, she then became the first woman on the ANC national executive committee. She was integral to the creation of the Freedom Charter in 1955. On the 09 August 1956 she led the women’s anti-pass march on the union buildings in Pretoria, one of the largest demonstration staged in South African history. In 1956 Lillian goyi was unsuccessfully tried for high treason along 156 others. She was imprisoned, banned and detained in solitary confinement many times.

Untitled Tribute to Mabrr
By: QrasVu?

For the Love of God gave birth to the earth.
Where martyrs walked the earth
Bared the pain…and gave birth to,
Salvation, Revolution, Freedom and Redemption to

Nations longing for the her bosom
She’s given birth to truth & right,
Conceiving the finest herbs, perfumes and ointments.

“you can see it from the stars above,”
Her eyes shine through to the future innocently,

Her birth writes pages of herstory & history,
For womb is mightier than sword?
Her man is the page of a next life time

‘Cause out of this womb…
Shall come out a breath of life to beast and ‘man,
Conceiving a woman – being,
To give birth to many.

Out her womb shall come out
Noah who saved the womb-earth,
Mosses to lead the exodus ‘movement of God’s people’

Cause out of this womb conceived was the law on two tablets.
This womb blessed with the holy spirit

August – September 2007-09-05

Torturous Love
By: QrasVu?

A simple phrase… Despite its suffix,
Yet will make you feel good & special.
Indivisible yet we feel its wrath.

An expression so innocent… behind the doors of our hearts,
Love’s torturous and soothing.

Complicated…it’s a gun
I guess I need a bullet proof soul.

From all stories told,
My tale remains untold,

“Nothing is new under the moon but love is torturous and unforgiving”?