Question Time: Mzwakhe Mbuli, 2 December 2015

South Africa's People's Poet, Mzwakhe Mbuli has come out guns blazing accusing the South African Broadcasting Corporation for perpetuating a tribal and bantustan agenda. He has also condemned the moral decay in the country falling short of blaming the government for allowing foreign behaviors to flourish at the expense of local cultures and traditions.
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[@didivebi7443]

we need man like Mzwakhe in this country, there is no truth at all

[@rudolfisaacmonyela5331]

That is so authentic and Profound Dad it can't be substituted by anything

[@kitiwelodge2684]

I follow you Sir and I comprehend what you are saying. That is true lot need to be changed

[@Assanedavidmbaye1995]

we really need people like u Mbuli to advocate for black people justice.

[@jeffreykhoza2977]

this guy should be the next president,100% agree with him.

[@alphakeadimilwe4101]

mzwakhe mbuli is real ,south african media is not fair

[@brendonmokalapa9353]

Mzwakhe the giant
By Brendon Mokalapa
People’s poet, African poet,
struggle poet, poet for the oppressed.
A father, a friend, the young Mandela, the universal poet.
Globally known, from the eighties have been sworn.
A vulgar proof, the tallest I ever seen,
Mzwakhe the giant man.
His creative juice never ceases even now,
his creative juice still continues to flow.
In the apartheid era, his poetry did blow.
Mzwakhe the giant,
the peace, mind freedom and acknowledgement galivant.
Mzwakhe the giant.
He is bombastically abled,
naturally doubled.
Supernaturally dubbed.
Bombarded with talent,
brave internally and outside.
Filled with knowledge, surely multitalented.
Born and delivered in 1959, August the first, into a poor
Xhosa-Zulu family,
but poverty didn’t withhold him from being the master of success in poetry.
Even when his family’s house was flagitiously bulldozed and forced to live in
Soweto. Well, he is still the old Mbuli.
Oppressors oppressed him too, leaving him clotheless, oh
what a shame.
but surely now they have grave numbers without him laying a finger on them.
But his poetic juice, music aromat was not taken from him.
Mzwakhe the giant.
“Sies’ and ‘Ignorant” was the beginning of Mzwakhe,
but even before that “GOD’s miracle” was already alive.
Mzwakhe Mbuli the giant, in the mist of apartheid he was heavier
than authorities.
the so called “die long man” among the police securities.
But truly he is an unbroken spirit.
He was harassed, punished, abused.
in a single decade arrested 8 times and denied 39 times passport.
surely the burning of his “change is pain” album didn’t destroy him, but did
motivate.
Behold Mzwakhe the legend,
the international role model, my personal dream driver, a gallon of talent,
with me I know we can change the world,
Mzwakhe the giant.
His words are not just spoken,
they are implemented daily and the enemy left broken.
His words on music piracy saved music industry over 19 million Rands.
He retired from recording music in 2009,
but music genes never die, thus he continued writing.
You must be in the ocean, in order to write about the ocean. Mbuli was challenged,
in order to write about challenge.
Mzwakhe the giant.

[@MichaelSelloMofokeng]

I salute mzwakhe

[@didivebi7443]

why SABC WHY iqiniso leli elimsulwa

[@mbhuda2208]

Mzwakhe only split the TRUTH

[@asproductionfilmingandente9883]

Mzwakhe Mbuli 🌏✍️🙌🏽

[@muzymuzzi7855]

SABC is dodging the bullets by running away with the answers from the pplz poet

[@advocatecingokuhlentlangul2316]

I know South Africans gives someone(buti Mzwakhe Mbuli) legacy and recognition when he /she is being called diseased..

[@nkoneninetshiendeulu4120]

I'm glad that you are against tribalism Baba Mbuli; that makes the two of us. I get irritated when Zulus are given an elevated status especially here in Gauteng and they are proud about that. Ian Smith and Hendrick Verwoerd are still smilling in their graves seeing us perpetuating what they have started.

[@ernestmangwane3963]

khuluma mzwakhe khuloma afrika 'izigi.kwazulunatal.pitoli

[@malebitsatimbuktu3352]

De jure the bantustans were ended in 1994, de facto the bantustans are very much alive today.