On June 4th, 2023, journalist Derrick Broze shared a presentation during the “From Scarcity to Abundance” Panel at the Better Way Conference in Bath, UK!
Very moving speech and poem. I had a luckier childhood in apartheid South Africa in which this repression of the indigenous Blacks was also practised by the "liberal" whites. I was somehow born a revulutionary and still in my teens I tried to tell the Ovambo slaves on our farm that they coudn't put up with their situation. Mqybe I was the only white in S.A. doing this but I invited the Ovambos and Hereros into the house for a tea and snack - while my parents were out. When I found Sandro crawling on the floor with a white foreman screaming at him, I intervened and helped Sandro to his feet, put my arrms around him and took him into living room for a drink. These farm labourers were paid very little, £3 a month for working from dawn to dusk. My father paid more £5 but this was not nearly enough. when I saw the same foreman take £1 off the salary of one man for a minor misdemeanour I took a pound out of my pocket money and gave it to him.. But I can't tell the whole story here. My autobiography has been published by Amazon and is entitled, Nambia, Foreign Lands and People.
Very moving speech and poem. I had a luckier childhood in apartheid South Africa in which this repression of the indigenous Blacks was also practised by the "liberal" whites. I was somehow born a revulutionary and still in my teens I tried to tell the Ovambo slaves on our farm that they coudn't put up with their situation. Mqybe I was the only white in S.A. doing this but I invited the Ovambos and Hereros into the house for a tea and snack - while my parents were out. When I found Sandro crawling on the floor with a white foreman screaming at him, I intervened and helped Sandro to his feet, put my arrms around him and took him into living room for a drink. These farm labourers were paid very little, £3 a month for working from dawn to dusk. My father paid more £5 but this was not nearly enough. when I saw the same foreman take £1 off the salary of one man for a minor misdemeanour I took a pound out of my pocket money and gave it to him.. But I can't tell the whole story here. My autobiography has been published by Amazon and is entitled, Nambia, Foreign Lands and People.