A Zulu Kingdom [rev.] Poem by Margaret Alice Second

A country destroyed before by the moral bankruptcy of
a totalitarian regime's stupidity committing suicide as
their "Reigning Party" was held more sacrosanct than
the happy co-existence of nations within its borders

After their ignominious political death, a depleted legacy
was bequeathed to Mandela's ANC before his memory
was besmirched, his reconciliation wisdom rejected in
corruption and immoral, unlimited plundering

Today this country is an autocratic Zuma-Zulu kingdom
with henchmen destroying the beauty and wealth of the
breathtakingly beautiful land - repeating the totalitarian
history of treating subjects as puppets to bow under

Such primitive kingship without insight or understanding,
oblivious to the need for employment, creating a welfare
state without providing good schools, taxes seen as the
personal wealth of the Zulu King, his many wives & kids

State funds irresponsibly depleted by the locusts living
under an uninformed reigning corps unable to learn and
bring wise leadership to government; a lost corps which
contains the seed of its own destruction - their end

Will come when suffering subjects reject the yoke of the
marauding, greedy fools failing to fathom what corruption,
equality, human rights and democracy mean, believing a
‘free market' the equivalent of slavery legitimised …