The voice of the people

In a small work of art I have been pursuing recently, is the idea of the voice of the people has been silenced. As evidenced by the last few day news and in the wake of the 40th anniversary of the Sharpeville massacre. Some thoughts come to mind, firstly however much the SABC attempts to silence all discussion and news of protests in the time leading up to the national election, luckily for the nation, it is not 1984, and there is this little thing called social media, is an excellent tool for spreading dissension and subverted knowledge, to a wider audience. The second is, that not much appears to have changed between 1976 and this day in 2016. The poor are still uneducated, the factions are mostly still tribal  (if the whispers are to be believed) and our lives are once again ruled by a ruling elite who are so out of touch with reality to think that they can do what they like without fear of consequence.