“ARREST ME” SAYS POET SIBUSISO MALIMELA
Malimela’s poem Ngibopheni:
Embodies the growing resistance students have shown in the face of police brutality
and the government’s blatant disregard for the law.
Category Archives: #BooksNotBullets
#BOOKSNOTBULLETS: FEESMUSTFALL A POEM BY JOANNE BOLTON
If all you care about are fees, I bid you to consider, please,
the way that you conduct yourself.
by Joanne Bolton
#BOOKSNOTBULLETS: SO SHORT A LETTER – A POEM BY KGOTHATSO MADITSE
“We are bringing you the remains of your promises
Buried in the same graves as our hopes and futures
We have exhumed them to pay our everlasting respect
Mass séances we hide under protests
Tombstones erected in our hearts bleed”
Kgothatso Maditse
#BOOKSNOTBULLETS: #FEESMUSTFALL A POEM BY ZEWANDE Bk. BHENGU
“I am the heir of broken 1994 dreams…I am that savage who still needs to beg for education while you swim in privilege” – Zewande Bk. Bhengu
#BOOKSNOTBULLETS: SHADOWS AND TREASONS A POEM BY ARYAN KAGANOF
On Wednesday 21 October
the sheriff came but the poet
was on leave so instead of fur
niture the poems were attached
#BOOKSNOTBULLETS: SA TODAY: THE LINGERING STENCH OF ’76 A POEM BY ASHRAF BOOLEY
Somewhere in the core of my country | dwells a cancer – seeping deep into the crevices of our livelihoods | that won’t let the child learn without first having to burn tyres. | When the child could remedy the land of its wailing wounds
and forgo its inherited injustices. | Who could paint our story anew | on a blank canvas of boundless possibilities.
#BOOKSNOTBULLETS: A REFLECTION ON PRIVILEGE BY ZANOKUHLE MTHEMBU
Why do our parents have to jump over the moon and back to send their children to a place of education? Why must there be blood scattered across our screens for the story to be heard?
Yesterday’s events highlighted many things but the most glaring thought is that our parents fought a very similar fight some 40 odd years ago. Except now we are united, solidified by a common a cause and powered by the notion of free education.
#BOOKSNOTBULLETS: FEESMUSTFALL A POEM BY ADELAIDE JANUARY
The same lashes our parents faced / We are now facing today / With police men dressed proudly in their uniform / Shooting rubber bullets confidently at students / #FeesMustFall is a cause we all need to be a part of…
#BOOKSNOTBULLETS: BY VIRTUE OF BEING… A Poem By Tefo Matlhabegoane
By virtue of being an educated conscious self-determining black person / you become an act of war / and you are a just war / you are revolution / you are our forefathers’ manifestos incarnate / a heart of ideas and a haven of justice…
#BooksNotBullets: “We See You” a poem by Tebogo Ramose
Through thickness of our tears
we see you president and our leaders
we see your calm in front of the
violence our brothers are given,
our sisters endure…
Word N Sound Live Literature Movement 
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