{"id":3053,"date":"2016-12-06T15:52:12","date_gmt":"2016-12-06T22:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/siever.ca\/kim\/?p=3053"},"modified":"2020-02-27T19:04:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-28T02:04:00","slug":"marikana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/siever.ca\/kim\/2016\/12\/06\/marikana\/","title":{"rendered":"Marikana"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. A bullet for infection, a hundred twelve injections.<\/li>\n
  2. Stop the spread with dozens dead, four months till my election.<\/li>\n
  3. McBuffalo the traitor now opposite of labour;<\/li>\n
  4. The boss in bed with platinum head, we\u2019ve lost our arbitrator.<\/li>\n
  5. We have 500 rand, but billions in his hands.<\/li>\n
  6. Each day we dig for dirty pigs deep under desert sand.<\/li>\n
  7. We work, and bleed, and sweat to pay our hungry debt.<\/li>\n
  8. So tired now, collective vow to make the mountain trek.<\/li>\n
  9. With patience we sit waiting, our roof and bed dictating<\/li>\n
  10. Protection feigned, they try in vain our weapons confiscating.<\/li>\n
  11. Green blanket calls dismount from off the mighty mount<\/li>\n
  12. Thousands strong now join the throng towards the body count.<\/li>\n
  13. Spears clapping and just singing, their chants in valley ringing.<\/li>\n
  14. Box them in! We\u2019re going to win! Let\u2019s start the tear gas flinging!<\/li>\n
  15. First seventeen are dying. The scene now horrifying.<\/li>\n
  16. They\u2019re on the run; the hunt\u2019s begun. We\u2019ve doubled bodies lying.<\/li>\n
  17. It\u2019s just like 1960\u2014well, maybe not so swiftly.<\/li>\n
  18. It\u2019s not the cracks, this time it\u2019s black, and certainly more grisly.<\/li>\n
  19. \u201cCease fire,\u201d yell the bosses. Too late to stop the losses.<\/li>\n
  20. Medics barred. No badges charged. See all the wooden crosses.<\/li>\n
  21. Two seventy arrested of those who had protested<\/li>\n
  22. A murder charge, but they just marched. The system is infested.<\/li>\n
  23. Marikana had backfired, four weeks they did inspire:<\/li>\n
  24. A hundred grand did take a stand, each worker filled with fire.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    A bullet for infection, a hundred twelve injections. Stop the spread with dozens dead, four months till my election. McBuffalo the traitor now opposite of labour; The boss in bed with platinum head, we\u2019ve lost our arbitrator. We have 500 rand, but billions in his hands. Each day we dig for dirty pigs deep under desert […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3054,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/siever.ca\/kim\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/08\/img_3016.jpg?fit=1574%2C1050&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s4NkW7-marikana","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1004,"url":"https:\/\/siever.ca\/kim\/2012\/04\/24\/my-version-of-our-sons-birth-story\/","url_meta":{"origin":3053,"position":0},"title":"My version of our son\u2019s birth story","author":"Kim Siever","date":"24 April 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"This is crossposted at Siever.ca, our family site. 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