“It is a work song sung deep underground in the mines !!! A Zulu song ! Sung by men who had to work in the hot dusty noisy stopes ! Nearest thing to HELL ! Very hot like a sauna ! No white man could work hard in that heat but they could !!! I worked for 21 years 2kms under the ground nearly seven days a week in a South African Gold Mine ! Lived on the job as I was on standbye and worked every sunday until an underground sub station explosion ruined my confidence ! I was an underground electrician ! The ordinary guys who work down a gold mine are some of the bravest finest men you will ever meet ! Riggers, boilermakers and fitters and the men who have to crawl into ,"The Square" every day and mine gold ! Many come from Mozambique , Lesotho and Transkei ! One of the toughest jobs in the world ? But the biggest heroes are "Proto men" who go in to rescue people when there are accidents or falls of ground ! They are the biggest heroes of all !!!!” Paul Rowe
Think about this next time you admire that glittering gold.
Shosholoza
South Africa
on this train from South Africa
Shosholoza
Go forward
Kulezo ntaba
from those mountains
Stimela siphume South Africa
on this train
from South Africa
Shosholoza
Wen' uyabaleka
You are running away
Kulezo ntaba
from those mountains
Stimela siphume South Africa
on this train from South Africa
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Inspiring.