BlackHouse Kollective Soweto, Author at Consciousness.co.za Magazine https://consciousness.co.za/author/blackhouse-kollective-soweto/ Arts and African History Thu, 11 Sep 2025 16:53:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 The Azanian Family Remembering Bantu Biko, Honouring the Elders Who Tend to Our Liberation History with Care https://consciousness.co.za/the-azanian-family-remembering-bantu-biko-honouring-the-elders-who-tend-to-our-liberation-history-with-care/ https://consciousness.co.za/the-azanian-family-remembering-bantu-biko-honouring-the-elders-who-tend-to-our-liberation-history-with-care/#respond Thu, 11 Sep 2025 16:53:22 +0000 https://consciousness.co.za/?p=15110 Friday, 12 September 2025 Kgosi Mampuru Correctional Centre We, the generation of Black Power Pan-Afrikanist activist-scholars and truth seekers, stand in profound gratitude to the elders and pathfinders who have safeguarded our liberation history with care, courage, and unyielding commitment. In 1995, in direct defiance of the logics of erasure employed by the so-called democratic [...]

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]]> https://consciousness.co.za/the-azanian-family-remembering-bantu-biko-honouring-the-elders-who-tend-to-our-liberation-history-with-care/feed/ 0 The Third Annual Azanian Decoloniality Community Winter School On Art And Black Radical Thought https://consciousness.co.za/the-third-annual-azanian-decoloniality-community-winter-school-on-art-and-black-radical-thought/ https://consciousness.co.za/the-third-annual-azanian-decoloniality-community-winter-school-on-art-and-black-radical-thought/#respond Fri, 25 Jul 2025 09:30:34 +0000 https://consciousness.co.za/?p=15103 The Blackhouse Kollective – Soweto invites members of the media to the third annual BHK Decolonial Winter School, a powerful five-day gathering of scholars, learners, artists, and activists exploring Black Consciousness, Pan-Africanism, and decolonial futures. Taking place from 29 July to 2 August 2025, the Winter School is unlike any ordinary academic or political event. [...]

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]]> https://consciousness.co.za/the-third-annual-azanian-decoloniality-community-winter-school-on-art-and-black-radical-thought/feed/ 0 Final farewell for Ntate Dr. Motsoko Pheko https://consciousness.co.za/final-farewell-for-ntate-dr-motsoko-pheko/ https://consciousness.co.za/final-farewell-for-ntate-dr-motsoko-pheko/#respond Thu, 02 May 2024 18:58:15 +0000 https://consciousness.co.za/?p=15013 Dr Motsoko Pheko: Azanian Revolutionary, Legal Scholer, Philosopher, Author, Historian, Leader, Pan Afrikanist, Internationalist, Husband, Father & Grandfather. OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE FROM THE PHEKO FAMILY The final farewell for Ntate Dr. Motsoko Pheko will take place on Saturday, May 4th, 2024, at Rosebank Union Church, located at 40 St Andrews Road, Hurlingham, Sandton, Gauteng. The [...]

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]]> https://consciousness.co.za/final-farewell-for-ntate-dr-motsoko-pheko/feed/ 0 A note of condolence to The Pheko family on the passing of Dr. Motsoko Pheko https://consciousness.co.za/a-note-of-condolence-to-the-pheko-family-on-the-passing-of-dr-motsoko-pheko/ https://consciousness.co.za/a-note-of-condolence-to-the-pheko-family-on-the-passing-of-dr-motsoko-pheko/#respond Wed, 01 May 2024 18:03:46 +0000 https://consciousness.co.za/?p=15016 The post A note of condolence to The Pheko family on the passing of Dr. Motsoko Pheko appeared first on Consciousness.co.za Magazine.

]]> https://consciousness.co.za/a-note-of-condolence-to-the-pheko-family-on-the-passing-of-dr-motsoko-pheko/feed/ 0 Dr Motsoko Pheko – November 13, 1930-April 19, 2024 https://consciousness.co.za/dr-motsoko-pheko-november-13-1930-april-19-2024/ https://consciousness.co.za/dr-motsoko-pheko-november-13-1930-april-19-2024/#respond Tue, 23 Apr 2024 18:05:51 +0000 https://consciousness.co.za/?p=14992 Azanian Revolutionary, Legal Scholer & Philosopher, Author, Historian, Leader, Pan Afrikanist, Internationalist, Husband, Father & Grandfather. OFFICAL PRESS RELEASE To All Media Houses 22 April 2024 A Word of Gratitude from the Pheko Family The family of Dr. Motsoko Pheko, who passed on 19 April 2024, wishes to express gratitude for the outpouring of love [...]

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]]> https://consciousness.co.za/dr-motsoko-pheko-november-13-1930-april-19-2024/feed/ 0 Sobukwe Speaking to a Basotholand African Congress Party, Conference in Lesotho in 1957 https://consciousness.co.za/sobukwe-speaking-to-a-basotholand-african-congress-party-conference-in-lesotho-in-1957/ https://consciousness.co.za/sobukwe-speaking-to-a-basotholand-african-congress-party-conference-in-lesotho-in-1957/#respond Mon, 04 Mar 2024 17:07:26 +0000 https://consciousness.co.za/?p=14950 Mr. Speaker, Sir, Sons and Daughters of the soil, I wish, in opening this conference, to quote the caption which appears on “Mohlabani” since it expresses so clearly the reason for our sustained struggle: “Tsoara thebe e tiee oa Rasenate, Oa bona fatse leno lea ea.” ( Hold fast thy shield, son of Rasenate, Thou [...]

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]]> https://consciousness.co.za/sobukwe-speaking-to-a-basotholand-african-congress-party-conference-in-lesotho-in-1957/feed/ 0 BLACKWASH SAYS: Fuck Soccer! We want liberation! https://consciousness.co.za/blackwash-says-fuck-soccer-we-want-liberation/ https://consciousness.co.za/blackwash-says-fuck-soccer-we-want-liberation/#respond Sun, 18 Feb 2024 20:42:49 +0000 https://consciousness.co.za/?p=14942 (Ncebakazi Manzi & Pakama Ngceni) Soccer is opium for the oppressed – a drug that keeps them just where their oppressors would like them to be. It is Generations, Scandal, Days of Our Lives, The Bold and the Beautiful and Jika-Majika all in one. For 90 minutes or more, the black poor can forget about [...]

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]]> https://consciousness.co.za/blackwash-says-fuck-soccer-we-want-liberation/feed/ 0 Solidarity with Dr. Pedro Mzileni https://consciousness.co.za/solidarity-with-dr-pedro-mzileni/ https://consciousness.co.za/solidarity-with-dr-pedro-mzileni/#respond Thu, 05 Oct 2023 15:29:01 +0000 https://consciousness.co.za/?p=14879 BlackHouse Kollective Soweto (BHK) stands in solidarity with Dr. Pedro Mzileni and the growing list of supporters who affirm the need to identify and critically engage the continued legacy of settler colonialism culture and structural antiblack racism in Occupied Azania. We oppose the weaponization of institutions and discourses that are meant to counter the legacy [...]

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