 The virgins of Manenburg, Heideveld and Lavistown
Are wearing dresses of death.
For they will never see their wedding day
And the young men
Of the townships of terror
Will dance the wedding march
Upon air as they sway
From the gallow beam.
They are born to violence
And the young maidens their prey
Mothers and fathers in black
A gallow is a device which supports a crossbeam from which a noose is suspended and used for execution by hanging. Hanging is the punishment for the crimes that the men commited 

The Virgins of Manenburg