It was this day that the masses got on their feet and started chanting
This is the day that granted me the opportunity
To be taught in a language that I understand
It was this day
That the masses fought for
So that you and I
Can be taught Mathematics
And not Wiskunde
To be able to say “Ma’am, I don’t understand”
And not “Mevrou ek verstaan nie”

This is the day
Where a life was lost
A life was lost
So that you and I
Can be free from the shackles
Of being taught in Afrikaans
Free from the shackles
Of Afrikaans being mistaken for our mother tongue

16 June 1976
Marks the day we were free from the shackles
Of being taught in a language that is not our mother tongue.

Happy Youth Day
To every youth
Out there
Trying to make ends meet