David Kapp, Belgravia
Zondeni Sobukwe
was the widow
of a PAC founder
(he better known
upheld that there
was one human race)
In her own right
not just was she
a wife-partner
standing behind
on the side-lines
an anti-apartheid activist
taking part she did
along with others
(the colonial world over)
She makes the news at 91
as does the exhumation
of PAC activists hanged
by the apartheid state
In her own right
in the country beloved’s
ritual Women’s Month
(we do it annually
on a planet where
women and children
bear the brunt)
someone comments
would you have known
her the day before
when she was living
and we then blame
the youth of today
for disremembering
and even selectively
remembering
Uhuru not yet