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Analysis of Nothing's Changed and Charlotte O'Neils song

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I have been studying poems from different cultures. The two I have been studying are Nothing's Changed, by Tatamkhulu Afrika and Charlotte O'Neil's Song, written by Fiona Farrell. Nothing's Changed was written about District 6 in Cape Town which was really racist which is now not even though it still is racist. Charlotte O'Neil's Song was written about lower class people going to New Zealand to escape the racism in England. Nothing's Changed, talks about how racist Cape Town is after white people went to the town. In the first stanza, the writer shows that Cape Town doesn't have proper footpaths, 'Small round hard stones click under my heels,' This shows that District 6 is not a very nice place to be because it has stones instead of footpaths. The writer also shows that there is long grass on the footpaths, 'seeding grasses thrust bearded seeds into trouser...

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