Water Wounds Written & performed by Nosihe Zulu
[Verse 1: Nosihe]
They say time will heal these wounds
And tear us apart
And move us along these rivers, I’m trying
Just trying to live
[Chorus: Nosihe]
Oh, I’m still standing where you left me
I’m still standing,
Oh, I’m still standing, yeah
Oh, I’m still standing
I’m still standing
[Verse 2: Nosihe]
So I’m wading, wading in the water
Baptized by fire, cleansing my soul with tears
When I look across the water, my fears are still
[Chorus: Nosihe]
Oh, I’m still standing
Oh, I’m still standing
Oh, I’m still standing where you left me
Oh, I’m still standing
Oh, but I’m still standing here
I’m still standing here
I’m still standing
Oh, I’m still standing here
I’m still standing even though it’s hard
Even though, I didn’t know I could make it
I’m still standing
I’m still standing
I’m still standing … standing
I’m still standing
This week I am really honored to share this new song with you. This song Water wounds is very personal and dear to me. It has been lying around and I did not know much about what I should do with it, until I got the opportunity to collaborate with photographer Thobani K & fashion brand / stylists Pattern Nation. Below is a breakdown of the whole project and this should explain to you why I found it so fitting to use the song for this project
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About the "Bleach the Dam" Project
Model: Nosihe
Custom Clothing: Pattern Nation
Location: Esikebheni Inanda Dam Ethekwini.
Photographer & Creative Director: Thobani K
Cover Art: @Mr_MediaX
It has been over three decades since people of Esikebheni, an area outside Inanda, north of Durban, have been displaced by Inanda dam. Forced to start over due to a water reserve that does not even supply the community with drinking water. Photographer Thobani K who was born in this area teamed up with Pattern Nation and vocalist Nosihe to produce images that tell a piece of the story about the struggle for water. Esikebheni is currently experiencing water cut-offs and strongly depends on water trucks delivering water twice a week. This has been a reality since 2013.
"When my family fell victim to Inanda Dam floods in 1987, they were given corrugated iron houses to live in them temporarily. Of course they ended up living there for 5 years before they could manage to actually build a new brick house for themselves. I was born in that corrugated iron house, and I can recall clearly my primary school days when a group of people from some organization came to teach us about cholera that had affected our community since we had no tap water. I remember one girl named Nana Mbambo who was one of the people that died from cholera; and I remember the fear those cholera deaths sent through out the neighborhood. We feared the only water available to us but had no other option but to drink it, to drink the water from the very same dam that displaced us. They gave us bleach bottles for free and told us to put one spoon in 25 litre barrels of water and wait for 24 hours before we can drink that water."
Thobani K has taken it upon himself to tell the whole story of the water issue through photographs; this set of images presented here tells a story of how the community was told to purify water from the dam using bleach, that is water for drinking and cooking.
Written & performed by Nosihe Zulu
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