You talk about prices

But tell me a single item whose price has gone up?

In the past a mere thirty shillings,

Could buy me clothes and shoes,

And enough flour for my belly.

Today I get two hundred shillings a month

And it can’t even buy insecticide enough

To kill a single bedbug.

African employers are no different

From Indian employers

Or from the Boer white landlords.

They don’t know the saying

That the hand of the worker should not be weakened

They don’t know the phrase “increased wages”