Wearing a khanga (a standard textile), Khwezi played on the commencing of the exhibition "Identification, Vitality and Connection", at the eve of the bi-annual Afrovibes Competition in Holland: mother wedding
I'm Khanga
I wrap myself across the curvaceous our bodies of girls all the way through Africa
I'm the right nightdress on these warm African nights
The correct dresses for relatives chores
I defend infants fortuitously on their mother’s backs
Am the most effective present for brand spanking new bride and new mom alike
Armed with proverbs, I'm car or truck for verbal exchange among girls
I exist for the relief and comfort of a lady
Yet no no no make no mistake …
I'm really not right here to thrill a person
And that i truly am now not a seductress
Please don’t use me as an excuse to rape
Don’t cover in the back of me for those who decide to abuse
You spot
That’s what he acknowledged my Malume
The guy who often called himself my daddy’s ally
Shared a mobile phone with him on [Robben] Island for ten complete years
He noted I needed it
That my khanga pronounced it
That with it I lured him to my mattress
That with it I need you is what I suggested
Yet what concerning the NO I uttered with my mouth
Now not as soon as yet two times
And the please no I observed with my physique
What in regards to the tear that ran down my face as I lay stiff with surprise
In what ill international is that intercourse
In what in poor health international is that consent
An analogous global wherein the rapist turns into the sufferer
An analogous international wherein I turned into the complain that would have to burn
The similar global in which I'm pressured into exile on account that I spoke out?
This isn't my international
I reject that international
My global is a worldwide in which fathers take care of and don’t rape
My global is a worldwide in which a girl can discuss out
With no worry for her security
My international is a global the place no person, however no person is above the regulation
My global is a global in which intercourse is enjoyable now not painful
‘This could also be my home’
Khuzwayo and her mom left the Netherlands for Tanzania, and changed into believed to have back to SA in 2011, the place they moved right into a township in KwaZulu-Natal.
Upon their go back, she tweeted: I'm greater, greater decided and returned to stick. I'm right here and maintain it. This can be additionally my homestead.