It used to be a feature. How they lied.
But now, hacking through thickets without maps,
where are the journalists who once decried
their racist selfishness? Their hate? Their snaps
and snarls, back in those days? I can't believe
that white South Africans are now too dull
for them. For good? It could be just a lull.
Or is it me? Am I just too naive?
Were they just news while being so extreme?
Of course they were. Just like so many others.
But this set them apart: Fathers, mothers,
entire tribes crushed by a regime
upheld by legislation so injurious
the media had no trouble to stay curious.