Aretha Franklin, Whitney Houston, Tina Turner, and Dolly Parton.
Four of the most iconic women who revolutionized the music industry.
Now none of them are with us anymore.
"We over negotiated."
~ Mama Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
What did we "over-negotiate"?
The Property Clause: We gave away the right to take back the Land without paying "market value."
The Apartheid Debt: We agreed to pay R194 Billion to the banks that funded our own oppression.
Mama Winnie knew that a political vote without economic power is just a "controlled freedom." She saw that the 1994 deal wasn't a victory, it was a management buyout that left the keys to the economy in the same old hands.
This is a diagnosis of our current poverty. We didn't "fail" at democracy; we are living out the terms of a deal that was rigged against us from the start.
She was sidelined because she refused to pretend that a flag and an anthem were enough.
We need to honour her because she spoke the truth when it was dangerous. We are still living in the "over negotiated" ruins of 1994. It's time to finish the revolution.
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