bayeza abafana bancane wema bayeza abafana bancane wema baphethe iqwasha baphethe ibazooka bathi sangena savuma thina lapha abazange bengena abazali bethu nabadala bayasikhalela thina ngoba asina voti hayiyaah the west is sleeping in a fragile freedom forgotten is the price that was paid ten thousand years of marching through a veil of tears to break a few links in these chains these things come to us by way of much pain don t let us slip back into the dark on a visible but distant shore a new image of man the shape of his own future now in his own hands he says chorus one man one vote step into the future one man one vote in a unitary state one man one vote tell them when you see them one man one vote it s the only way bayeza abafana abancane hayiyaah in the east a giant is awakening and in the south we feel the rising tide the soul inside the spark that gives breath to your life can no longer be made to hide these things come to us by way of much pain don t let us slip back into the dark on a visible but distant shore a new image of man the shape of his own future now in his own hands he says chorus