{"id":50044,"date":"2021-02-16T21:15:57","date_gmt":"2021-02-16T21:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=50044"},"modified":"2021-02-16T21:19:19","modified_gmt":"2021-02-16T21:19:19","slug":"namibia-and-botswana-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2021\/02\/namibia-and-botswana-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia and Botswana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gifted by god<br \/>\nHistoricity<br \/>\nThe big five<br \/>\nAre in flight<br \/>\nSinners there are  many<br \/>\nWho seem heartless<br \/>\nAnd delight<br \/>\nIn selling off the pristine wilderness<br \/>\nUnder the feet of animal angels<br \/>\nIn fact a human blight<\/p>\n<p>Who behind closed doors<br \/>\nAre ready<br \/>\nTo exchange lives for the cash<br \/>\nSee the end of kingdoms<br \/>\nBasically they trash<br \/>\nThe miracles god given<br \/>\nThe priceless souls who be<br \/>\nLiving in the Okavanga Delta<br \/>\nWhere we see<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of years of wondrous life<br \/>\nThese governments appear<br \/>\nTo exchange and ditch the living<br \/>\nAnd raise and augment such fear<br \/>\nSell of to the corporations<br \/>\nDrenched in corruption who<br \/>\nWill bring their filthy diggers<br \/>\nAnd exploit the oil, their view<\/p>\n<p>To find the gas to witness destruction<br \/>\nTurn to Hell<br \/>\nThe heaven that God created<br \/>\nTo in fact cast a spell<br \/>\nOf mischief dark and ugly<br \/>\nRelentlessly to kill<br \/>\nLife itself to murder<br \/>\nAnd so much blood to spill<\/p>\n<p>Who can truly think this way<br \/>\nCondole  such evil why<br \/>\nThey are indeed a cancer<br \/>\nThey take on the sky<br \/>\nThe land the soul of Africa<br \/>\nIt is  a crying shame<br \/>\nMisjudgement on so great a scale<br \/>\nAnd of course we blame<\/p>\n<p>The greedy ugly industries<br \/>\nWho discriminate and steal<br \/>\nAfrica\u2019s angelic kingdoms<br \/>\nYes how they reveal<br \/>\nTheir insensitive unlawfulness<br \/>\nHow wrongheaded and how sad<br \/>\nDigging up a paradise<br \/>\nOf course completely mad<\/p>\n<p>What lies below will never<br \/>\nFavour anyone<br \/>\nThe death the blood the history<br \/>\nWhen the day is  done<br \/>\nThe despicable the futility<br \/>\nOf money in their bank<br \/>\nRiding roughshod over life itself<br \/>\njust wholly rank<\/p>\n<p>The Kalahari Bushmen<br \/>\nSuch infidelity<br \/>\nThe unconscientiousness<br \/>\nThe opportunism<br \/>\nSuch criminality<br \/>\nThrowing a wild people<br \/>\nTossing them away<br \/>\nSuch spivvery such skullduggery<br \/>\nImagine day on day<\/p>\n<p>Centuries of Indigenous thought<br \/>\nThe iniquity one feels<br \/>\nGas and oil remarkably<br \/>\nThe malevolence<br \/>\nIt boils up in  hearts and in spirits<br \/>\nThe immorality<br \/>\nThe corruption and the heinousness<br \/>\nThe true degeneracy<\/p>\n<p>A people will be wiped out<br \/>\nGreat animals will be too<br \/>\nMany generations of wildness<br \/>\nCompletely Torn into<br \/>\nOblivion before our eyes<br \/>\nAFRICA will be<br \/>\nComplicit in the corporate swamp<br \/>\nOf such enormity<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gifted by god Historicity The big five Are in flight Sinners there are many Who seem heartless And delight In selling off the pristine wilderness Under the feet of animal angels In fact a human blight Who behind closed doors &hellip; 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