sentences:  Dhlomo also wrote poems – mostly published by his brother R. R. R. Dhlomo – such as "Fired – Lines on an African Intellectual being sacked by White Liberals for his independent ideas".Dhlomo's personal grievance coincided with a general trend, strengthened by the nationalistic ideas held by the ANC of the time.The general trend from tutelage to protest, to resistance against political oppression of blacks has its roots in that era and continues to the very day.