She was right - 6 Apr'09

She was right
exclaims my dad
to mom and me
his eyes a-twinkle

She was right
City Councillor of old
the feisty Jane Gool
long before careerists
made it into our body politic

She was right
group areas will remain
long after it is gone
from our statute books

She was right
us and them loom
often larger than life
and the classifications
on government forms

She was right
as the ruling party
points our befrocked critic
in the direction of
former apartheid group areas

She was right
as were others warning
against two-staged solutions
to South Africa’s problems

She was right
tribalists now side by side
with careerists and cronyists
neo-revolutionary nationalists
minds still balkanized

She was right
then says my dad

She is right
still
don’t you think

My brow furrowed at our ruling party puffing out its chest in the name of itself, Friday 03 April 2009 onwards.