Well Jo'anna she runs a country She runs in Durban and the Transvaal
She makes a few of her people happy, She don't care about the rest at all
She's got a system they call apartheid It keeps a brother in a subjection
But maybe pressure can make Jo'anna see How everybody could a live as one
Gimme hope, Jo'anna Hope, Jo'anna Gimme hope, Jo'anna
'Fore the morning come Gimme hope, Jo'anna Hope, Jo'anna
Hope before the morning come
I hear she make all the golden money To buy new weapons, any shape of guns While every mother in black Soweto fears The killing of another son
Sneakin' across all the neighbours' borders Now and again having little fun
She doesn't care if the fun and games she play Is dang'rous to ev'ryone
She's got supporters in high up places Who turn their heads to the city sun
Jo'anna give them the fancy money Oh to tempt anyone who'd come
She even knows how to swing opinion In every magazine and the journals
For every bad move that this Jo'anna makes They got a good explanation
Even the preacher who works for Jesus The Archbishop who's a peaceful man
Together say that the freedom fighters Will overcome the very strong
I wanna know if you're blind Jo'anna If you wanna hear the sound of drums
Can't you see that the tide is turning don't make me wait
till the morning come (sing365)
Grant wrote this in honor of South African leader Nelson Mandela. Mandela fought against apartheid, a policy that separated people by race, and was very oppressive to blacks. Mandela was a political prisoner for over 20 years before apartheid was abandoned. After he was released, Mandela became president of South Africa. According to Grant, this became the anthem of the apartheid movement. (songfacts)
Apartheid was a system of racial segregation enforced through legislation by the National Party governments of South Africa between 1948 and 1994, under which the rights of the majority non-white inhabitants of South Africa were curtailed and white supremacy and Afrikaner minority rulewas maintained. Apartheid was developed after World War II by the Afrikaner-dominated National Party and Broederbond organizations and was practiced also in South West Africa, which was administered by South Africa under a League of Nations mandate, until it gained independence as Namibia in 1990.
Racial segregation in South Africa began in colonial times under Dutch and British rule. However, apartheid as an official policy was introduced following the general election of 1948. New legislation classified inhabitants into four racial groups and residential areas were segregated, sometimes by means of forced removals. Non-white political representation was completely abolishedin 1970, and starting in that year black people were deprived of their citizenship, legally becoming citizens of one of ten tribally based self-governing homelands , four of which became nominally independent states. The government segregated education, medical care, beaches, and other public services, and provided black people with services inferior to those of white people.
Apartheid sparked significant internal resistance and violence as well as a long arms and trade embargo against South Africa. Since the 1950s, a series of popular uprisings and protests were met with the banning of opposition and imprisoning of anti-apartheid leaders. As unrest spread and became more violent, state organisations responded with increasing repression and state-sponsored violence.
Reforms to apartheid in the 1980s failed to quell the mounting opposition, and in 1990 President Frederik Willem de Klerk began negotiations to end apartheid, culminating in multi-racial democratic elections in 1994, which were won by the African National Congress under Nelson Mandela. The vestiges of apartheid still shape South African politics and society. (wikipedia)
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