Luvuyo Mthimkhulu Dondolo, Ph.D., Author at Consciousness.co.za Magazine https://consciousness.co.za/author/luvuyo/ Arts and African History Mon, 22 Jun 2020 15:10:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Black Lives Matter: ‘Get Your Knee off My Neck’, ‘I Can’t breathe’ https://consciousness.co.za/black-lives-matter-get-your-knee-off-my-neck-i-cant-breathe/ https://consciousness.co.za/black-lives-matter-get-your-knee-off-my-neck-i-cant-breathe/#respond Mon, 22 Jun 2020 15:07:06 +0000 https://consciousness.co.za/?p=13899 ‘I was born to work up to my grave, but I was not born to be a slave’ – Maya Angelou (2014) The United States (US) has a peculiar history of racialised police brutality. This phenomena points to a number of issues in American society and some with a long tradition that dates back to [...]

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]]> https://consciousness.co.za/black-lives-matter-get-your-knee-off-my-neck-i-cant-breathe/feed/ 0 Covid-19: Spatial Plan and Human Settlement Enterprise in South Africa https://consciousness.co.za/covid-19-spatial-plan-and-human-settlement-enterprise-in-south-africa/ https://consciousness.co.za/covid-19-spatial-plan-and-human-settlement-enterprise-in-south-africa/#respond Mon, 04 May 2020 15:55:05 +0000 https://consciousness.co.za/?p=13877 THE urban and rural apartheid spatial plan in South Africa has a peculiar history. For the purpose of this piece, I focus only on the urban spatial plan. The latter was complemented by pieces of legislation that were meant to control the standard of living and manage the movement of Africans in spaces which were [...]

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]]> https://consciousness.co.za/covid-19-spatial-plan-and-human-settlement-enterprise-in-south-africa/feed/ 0 Dr Godfrey Mokgonane Pitje Public Lecture https://consciousness.co.za/dr-godfrey-mokgonane-pitje-public-lecture/ https://consciousness.co.za/dr-godfrey-mokgonane-pitje-public-lecture/#respond Fri, 19 Jul 2019 10:59:17 +0000 https://consciousness.co.za/?p=13652 The University of Fort Hare (UFH) Centre for Transdisciplinary Studies will host the Godfrey Mokgonane Pitje Public Lecture on Thursday, the 15th August 2019, under the theme: “Afrikan Intellectualism as an antidote to Colonial Grammar and the Apex of Servant Leadership”. The Public Lecture is in remembrance of Pitje’s intellectual capital and political activism over [...]

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]]> https://consciousness.co.za/dr-godfrey-mokgonane-pitje-public-lecture/feed/ 0 Arrogance of Power: Officialdom & The Dialectics of The So-Called ‘State Funeral’ With Reference to the Funeral of Mama Sobukwe https://consciousness.co.za/arrogance-of-power-officialdom-the-dialectics-of-the-so-called-state-funeral-with-reference-to-the-funeral-of-mama-sobukwe/ https://consciousness.co.za/arrogance-of-power-officialdom-the-dialectics-of-the-so-called-state-funeral-with-reference-to-the-funeral-of-mama-sobukwe/#respond Wed, 19 Sep 2018 11:23:42 +0000 https://consciousness.co.za/?p=13301 Wednesday 22 August 2018, was the day epitomised by a series of memorial services for Mama Sobukwe held in different parts of the country. At the University of Fort Hare, the Centre for Trans-disciplinary Studies and the Centre of Theology Studies organised her memorial service. The Mother of Azania did not only pass away on [...]

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]]> https://consciousness.co.za/arrogance-of-power-officialdom-the-dialectics-of-the-so-called-state-funeral-with-reference-to-the-funeral-of-mama-sobukwe/feed/ 0 Beneath the Surface: Historical Inconsistencies and Misrepresentations of Historical Specificities https://consciousness.co.za/beneath-the-surface-historical-inconsistencies-and-misrepresentations-of-historical-specificities/ https://consciousness.co.za/beneath-the-surface-historical-inconsistencies-and-misrepresentations-of-historical-specificities/#respond Thu, 05 Jul 2018 12:36:21 +0000 https://consciousness.co.za/?p=13242 This piece is the critique of the critique. The article titled ‘ANC version of history overshadows the real story of resistance’ by Panashe Chigumadzi on the Sunday Times newspaper dated 17 June 2018 serves as a reference. This article was intended to highlight the falsification of history by the ruling party – African National Congress [...]

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]]> https://consciousness.co.za/beneath-the-surface-historical-inconsistencies-and-misrepresentations-of-historical-specificities/feed/ 0 Complexities of the Four Nation Thesis: The Contested Renaming of the South African Airports https://consciousness.co.za/complexities-of-the-four-nation-thesis-the-contested-renaming-of-the-south-african-airports/ https://consciousness.co.za/complexities-of-the-four-nation-thesis-the-contested-renaming-of-the-south-african-airports/#respond Mon, 25 Jun 2018 13:30:26 +0000 https://consciousness.co.za/?p=13226 The Department of Transport and the Airports Company South Africa (ACSA) have been holding public meetings over changing the airport’s name. The incident that was witnessed on 5 June 2018 at the Cape Town International Airport, when tempers flared between the members of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) – who want it be named after [...]

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]]> https://consciousness.co.za/complexities-of-the-four-nation-thesis-the-contested-renaming-of-the-south-african-airports/feed/ 0 Blacks Can’t Be Racist: Moeletsi Mbeki’s Artificial Post-Racial Destination In South Africa https://consciousness.co.za/blacks-cant-be-racist-moeletsi-mbekis-artificial-post-racial-destination-in-south-africa/ https://consciousness.co.za/blacks-cant-be-racist-moeletsi-mbekis-artificial-post-racial-destination-in-south-africa/#respond Mon, 28 May 2018 10:18:07 +0000 https://consciousness.co.za/?p=13218 Moeletsi Mbeki’s statement about Julius Malema as ‘a black racist’ – as he pushes for land expropriation without compensation – in an article on the Citizen newspaper website dated 15 /05/2018 is misleading and problematic at various levels: historicity of the land issue, present reality and racialised inequality and poverty which, to some extent, relates [...]

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