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.
Whites Might eventualy be run out by Blacks, We can adapt in other first world countries, But when we are gone you will be stuck here and this country will be run down just like Zimbabwe, and the Countries before that. Good Luck trying to adapt in a first world country when you have completely destroyed SA
[...] clutching onto their MK uniforms…which have somehow morphed into ANCYL t-shirts screaming: Dubul ibhunu aka Shoot the Boer. Yes, I’m being dramatic but you get my point [...]
F* the white people, we grew up struggling because of them and bantu education we got is not helping much. Even now at work places after the so called liberation blacks are still maginalised. So if they think we as blacks are not intelligent enough to do things right they can go to hell. I think Africans (blacks) are easily forgiving thats why why whites think we are stupid we allowed them to live with us all bad things they did to us.
Dear Bheks,
I quote Nelson Mandela at the Rivonia Trial in 1964, after which he spent 27 years in prison for your freedom:
“We of the ANC had always stood for a non-racial democracy, and we shrank from any action which might drive the races further apart…the only solution which will guarantee racial harmony and freedom for all. It is not true that the enfranchisement of all will result in racial domination. Political division, based on colour, is entirely artificial and, when it disappears, so will the domination of one colour group by another. The ANC has spent half a century fighting against racialism. When it triumphs it will not change that policy…I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.”
None of the hundreds of white people I know, think that “black” South Africans are stupid. “Black” South Africans are 90% of the population. There are now more wealthy “Black” South Africans than wealthy “White” South Africans. The political party in power for 18 years (a very long time in any democracy)is predominantly “Black”. Every where I go almost all the people I deal with in every job, at every level, are “Black”. I don’t think this is being “marginalised”. Yes, the legacy of the unspeakably unjust and brutal disposession and exploitation of the indigenous people of South Africa for 340 years has caused millions enormous suffering. However, the past cannot be undone. We must all work together, now that we have the freedom to do so, to bring about the equality that many thousands of wonderful people struggled courageously and died for. If you give yourself a chance to look around at the many people doing wonderful work to change things for the better, you will see that many of them are “White”. As Mandela taught us all, non-racism (both ways) is the only way for all of us to have freedom.
I wish you all the best in all that you do.