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Life of struggle has been my only known reality
From conception, my life has been one battle after another
Birth and growing up introduced me to impoverishment
As I adjusted to impoverishment I realised that I was also oppressed and landless
Enslavement, colonialism and apartheid marked my total African experience and reality
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Oppression no more, I wanted a new, free reality in Azania, the land of my birth
Izwe lethu, iAfrika, free the land, free t