{"id":23969,"date":"2020-06-04T03:58:33","date_gmt":"2020-06-04T10:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/?p=23969"},"modified":"2022-06-03T18:08:28","modified_gmt":"2022-06-04T01:08:28","slug":"we-didnt-get-to-finish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/?p=23969","title":{"rendered":"We didn’t get to finish"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n
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Tembinkosi Qondela<\/p><\/div>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

We didn’t get to finish<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

We didn’t get to finish
a social media dialogue
in between the music
I sent TQ to keep
our spirits up<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

We didn’t get to finish
he asking leading questions
in response to my saying
that I miss the schoolchildren<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

What will you do he asks
when most are infected\u00a0
the school has to close\u00a0
and you can’t even\u00a0
visit them at the hospital\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Children whose nutrition\u00a0
and immune system\u00a0
is compromised are also\u00a0
vulnerable and then they\u00a0
bring it home to those\u00a0
who are more vulnerable<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Whizz Centre suspended classes\u00a0
for 60 of their learners\u00a0
who were a major source\u00a0
of the Centre’s income
putting people’s health first<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

This is the TQ we knew
health before profit
health before economy\u00a0
not economy before health
he maintained you cannot sacrifice\u00a0
people’s health for the economy<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Then he asks me
what is this economy\u00a0
we are talking about\u00a0\u00a0
are we talking about\u00a0
food or gold<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

We didn’t get to finish<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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(Photo Credit: Facebook \/ Tembinkosi Qondela<\/a>)<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We didn’t get to finish We didn’t get to finisha social media dialoguein between the musicI sent TQ to keepour spirits up We didn’t get to finishhe asking leading questionsin response to my sayingthat I miss the schoolchildren What will you do he askswhen most are infected\u00a0the school has to close\u00a0and you can’t even\u00a0visit them […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[139,6479,731,5150,83,3543,732],"class_list":["post-23969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-cape-town","tag-covid-19","tag-david-kapp","tag-khayelitsha","tag-south-africa","tag-tembinkosi-qondela","tag-the-very-unfortunate","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23969"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26132,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23969\/revisions\/26132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}