Apartheid - Macka B

Election time in South Africa

But Black people cyaan vote

What kind of election is that?

Apartheid is one nasty joke

Apartheid

Must be destroyed

Apartheid

Must be destroyed

Apartheid

Must be destroyed

Apartheid

Must be destroyed

System in South Africa

Named apartheid

Where your basic human rights

Are denied

Black people and white people

Dem divide

Some a' di tings which a-gwaan

Words couldn’t describe

Them will lock a man a prison

If he Black Pride

In a dutty prison cell

people died

A lot a inna prison

without being tried

Then we kill a man in prison

And den say a suicide

Apartheid

Must be destroyed

Apartheid

Must be destroyed

Apartheid

Must be destroyed

Apartheid

Must be destroyed

And all the best land

Is white occupied

All the Blacks who used to live down there

Have been cast aside

In the barrenest place

Is where them has to reside

Where nothin' can grow

And all the rivers have dried

Then we split up the families

A far and wide

Separate a bridegroom

From him new bride

'Cause he’s got to go to work

As a way

come back every night

He can’t afford the bus ride

Apartheid

Must be destroyed

Apartheid

Must be destroyed

Apartheid

Must be destroyed

Apartheid

Must be destroyed

Leader a' di movement

Him a-gwaan like white is

Superior

Take away wi gold

Take away wi silver

And gwaan like dem

Doin' us a favour

Who gi' dem di right

Who gi' dem di order

Fi come 'a people country

And make people suffer?

There even are some churches

Which we cannot enter

But dey nah praise God

Dem a-praise Lucifer

Just imagine if the Black man

the power

white people suffer

Would be full of anger

And also his deputy

Maggie Thatcher

Dem would a

So mi seh

Apartheid

Must be destroyed

Apartheid

Must be destroyed

Apartheid

Must be destroyed

Apartheid

Must be destroyed

In a world that’s supposed to be so civilised

How come we allow a ting like apartheid?

People in the West, get off your backside

'Cause the time has come, we haffi turn that tide