Appendix 3: Asijiki/The March

Gráinne Perkins (University of Southern Maine, USA)

Danger in Police Culture

ISBN: 978-1-83753-113-4, eISBN: 978-1-83753-112-7

Publication date: 11 December 2023

Citation

Perkins, G. (2023), "Appendix 3: Asijiki/The March", Danger in Police Culture, Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 165-165. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-83753-112-720231015

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Emerald Publishing Limited

Copyright © 2024 Gráinne Perkins. Published under exclusive licence by Emerald Publishing Limited


The composer of this song is unknown although the song is considered as a ‘Freedom song’ sung during the Apartheid era. The translation was facilitated by Ms Thandi Goxo, IsiXhosa language teacher at the University of Cape Town.

IsiXhosa English
Siyaya, siyaya We will go, we will
Siyaya noba kubi We will, even in dreariness
Emabhulwini siyaya, To the Boers, we will go
Siyaya noba kubi, We will, even in misery,
Noba besidubula Even when they shoot us.
Siyaya… We will go…