Kameraad Mhambi has a lot of time for Gwede Mantashe the secreatary general of the ANC. But his assertion that the song Dubul’ ibhunu has an anti-apartheid legacy within the ANC seems to be wrong.
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This excellent article sets out where it comes from, the PAC, who renounced it, only for it to be taken up by Peter Mokaba after apartheid had ended.
The truth seems to be that words to the same effect first were chanted in Pan-Africanist Congress (PAC) circles in the early 1990s along with their infamous slogan of “one settler, one bullet”. Shortly thereafter, the late ANC youth leader Peter Mokaba borrowed the slogan and began chanting his “kill the Boer, kill the farmer” version in 1993 after the murder of ANC and Communist Party leader, Chris Hani.
Ayesab’ amagwala (Cowards are scared)
Dubula! dubula! dubula nge s’bhamu (Shoot, shoot, shoot them wit a gun)
Dubul’ ibhunu (Shoot the boer)
Dubula! dubula! dubula nge s’bhamu (Shoot, shoot, shoot them wit a gun)
Mama, ndiyeke ndidubul’ ibhunu (Ma, let me shoot the Boer)
Dubula! dubula! dubula nge s’bhamu (Shoot, shoot, shoot them wit a gun)
Ziyareypa lezinja (These dogs rape)
Dubula! dubula! dubula nge s’bhamu (Shoot, shoot, shoot them wit a gun)
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Interesting article by Mphutlane wa Bofelo on the recent song controversy.
“Freedom songs ‘speak to the pertinent issues of the time, expose the excesses and injustices of the system and the comfortable beneficiaries and supporters of the system, and point to the type of society the people envisage and the means to attain it,’ writes Mphutlane wa Bofelo. That is why South Africa’s new political elite is ‘stunting’ the ‘creative imagination and revolutionary rhythm by harping on “yesterday’s” songs’, says Bofelo, so that it can deflect the growing anger among the masses about the failings of their leadership back onto the ‘remnants of the old order’.”
http://www.ukzn.ac.za/ccs/default.asp?2,40,5,1988
Just as the ANC hijacked the Sharpeville legacy and made the legacy of Biko their own. On this note – I think Malema is in the wrong political home. Rationally and historically it would seem that he would be much more at ease in the arms of the PAC or AZAPO. But then again…he would probably not earn the money he is earning now.
Lmao! Nice song
nice song I like that…dubul dubul dubul yeaaaah dubul dubul my arse.
[...] Source: Dubul’ ibhunu lyrics & history [...]
ANC Malema is a threat within your boundaries and if Jecob and Matashe entertain his conduct, am afraid, Malema is grabbing ANC to the hell. the song is ok, but not if it directed to certain individual as Malema did, coz nathi we would not like Whites to col us Kafir
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Sanele that’s exactly what i thought. Darren Scott has lost his name and reputation for using the k word, it is ugly and offensive, the same should be applied to Malema. It does nothing to contribute to the ideals set out in the constitution that are supposed to unite instead of divide us.