Nelson Mandela

When South

Africa won the

Rugby World

Cup

You were on the pitch

Soon after

The final

Whistle was

Blown

In your replica shirt

As far as

I'm concerned

That's the way to

Lead

A nation

Properly, as a man

Of the people, as

A real human being

And

As a celebrating South African

Clapham Common

You were still

In Robben Island prison

When

Bands gave their time for free

The Specials

Were joined

Onstage by

Everyone

For 'Free Nelson Mandela'

Including Hugh

Masekela, another

Absolute legend

Who's

Set blew me away

Earlier Peter

Gabriel had sung

A superb rendition of

“Biko”

Full of emotion

No-one can deny

The inhumanity

Opression and injustice of

Apartheid

Nor that

The UK tory

Party were

Enthusiastic and willful

Supporters

Of those regimes

Typically for the

United Kingdom

The Filth

Shut

The Rock Against Racism

Gig down just

Three songs into

The Big Audio

Dynamite

Set making some silly point

You were never

Bitter about twenty seven

Years locked up in

Prison

Which is astounding

But even so it

Still seems odd to

Hear the leader of the

Tory

Party that supported

Apartheid including

Their blessed Margaret

Who was a nasty

Racist

Evil bitch

Reading the words

Some adviser had

Written as if he'd never

Visited

As a guest of pro-Apartheid organisations

So just as

I celebrated Thatcher's

Death because a nasty

Negative

Evil person had died

We should all

Celebrate your life

A real, warm, living

Man

With a beating heart

You're now free, Nelson Mandela