Anti-apartheid song, composed by Bongani Magatyana from Capetown, South Africa
lyrics
"In 1956, in Pretoria, South Africa, Marta gave birth to this strong man.
Respect the womb of Marta. She gave birth to this strong man.
He was a strong man, he was fighting for his country."
Part of a longer work Bongani wrote for a competition of songs dedicated to Solomon Mahlangu, a 23-year old freedom fighter captured by police on his return from extended exile abroad. Mahlangu was tried and hung in 1979, symbolically on the anniversary of the creation of apartheid.
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