In 1990 we were still living on Clara Zetkin Strasse.
On 1 May, a large group of people arrived.
Young people from Leipzig, Berlin, and Dresden came
and stood in front of our accommodation and yelled: Foreigners out! Foreigners out!
They started throwing stones, breaking all the windows.
Then they said: We’ll be back!
They wanted us to go back to Mozambique after 12 years here,
without any thanks for all that we’d done.
I don’t know what we had done wrong.
We worked in the open-face mines, for the coal
people needed, we worked extremely hard, side-by-side.
And then they thanked us by throwing stones at us.
I will never understand it.