This is a South African resistance song, written in the mid-1980's by a young white soldier named Dan Heyman conscripted to the SADF. The young soldier was sent to a township to enforce curfew on the many inhabitants. He was outraged by the oppression he saw there and wrote this song in defiance. The man in the lyrics is Hendrik Verwoerd the architect of Apartheid. The song highlights Verwoerd's arrogance toward the world's media when he was questioned about the situation in South Africa. The song is about the barrier he created between races to keep white people "safe from the Back Danger" he made black people out to be dangerous, monstrous even. When in reality, the oppressed were innocents, weeping instead of roaring. A very moving song about White supremacist ignorance.
This is a South African resistance song, written in the mid-1980's by a young white soldier named Dan Heyman conscripted to the SADF. The young soldier was sent to a township to enforce curfew on the many inhabitants. He was outraged by the oppression he saw there and wrote this song in defiance. The man in the lyrics is Hendrik Verwoerd the architect of Apartheid. The song highlights Verwoerd's arrogance toward the world's media when he was questioned about the situation in South Africa. The song is about the barrier he created between races to keep white people "safe from the Back Danger" he made black people out to be dangerous, monstrous even. When in reality, the oppressed were innocents, weeping instead of roaring. A very moving song about White supremacist ignorance.