Masilo Lepuru, Author at Consciousness.co.za Magazine https://consciousness.co.za/author/masilo-lepuru/ Arts and African History Mon, 31 Mar 2025 18:05:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Heritage and Transmission: A Reading of Sobukwe. https://consciousness.co.za/heritage-and-transmission-a-reading-of-sobukwe/ https://consciousness.co.za/heritage-and-transmission-a-reading-of-sobukwe/#respond Mon, 31 Mar 2025 18:05:16 +0000 https://consciousness.co.za/?p=15086 “l am a simple African man doing my duty,  in my own country in the context of our time.”  AMILCAR CABRAL The history of philosophy is characterized by particular thoughts of philosophers. This implies that by studying the history of philosophy we also study the account of the thoughts of particular philosophers. It is in [...]

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]]> https://consciousness.co.za/heritage-and-transmission-a-reading-of-sobukwe/feed/ 0 Biko and the biography of Black people https://consciousness.co.za/biko-and-the-biography-of-black-people/ https://consciousness.co.za/biko-and-the-biography-of-black-people/#respond Fri, 24 Jan 2025 12:48:16 +0000 https://consciousness.co.za/?p=15082 At the heart of white settler colonialism is land dispossession which was accompanied by epistemicide. The individual and collective identity of the victims of land dispossession and epistemicide is anchored in the territory they have occupied and exercised sovereignty over since time immemorial. Thus, the history of individual and collective identity is also a political [...]

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]]> https://consciousness.co.za/biko-and-the-biography-of-black-people/feed/ 0 Thirty years of South African constitutional democracy and the crisis of Black Thought https://consciousness.co.za/thirty-years-of-south-african-constitutional-democracy-and-the-crisis-of-black-thought/ https://consciousness.co.za/thirty-years-of-south-african-constitutional-democracy-and-the-crisis-of-black-thought/#respond Fri, 10 May 2024 10:00:42 +0000 https://consciousness.co.za/?p=15026 The year 2024 marks the so-called 30 years of constitutional democracy in South Africa. To those who subscribe to this idea, the so-called first democratic elections of 1994 mark the beginning of a nonracial democratic dispensation in South Africa. Reconciliation between blacks and whites through the “entrancing” magic of Desmond Tutu and Nelson Mandela symbolised [...]

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]]> https://consciousness.co.za/thirty-years-of-south-african-constitutional-democracy-and-the-crisis-of-black-thought/feed/ 0 South Africa’s constitutional democracy and thirty years without Izwe Lethu https://consciousness.co.za/south-africas-constitutional-democracy-and-thirty-years-without-izwe-lethu/ https://consciousness.co.za/south-africas-constitutional-democracy-and-thirty-years-without-izwe-lethu/#respond Thu, 09 May 2024 15:01:36 +0000 https://consciousness.co.za/?p=15022 Jan Van Riebeek once stated in the late 1600s that the Dutch settlers who dispossessed the Indigenous people of their land through “defensive warfare” intend to retain the land. Van Riebeek was affirming without shame “the right of conquest” and laying the foundation of South Africa and white settler constitutionalism which are based on land [...]

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]]> https://consciousness.co.za/south-africas-constitutional-democracy-and-thirty-years-without-izwe-lethu/feed/ 0 Cape Independence and “the right of conquest” in South Africa https://consciousness.co.za/cape-independence-and-the-right-of-conquest-in-south-africa/ https://consciousness.co.za/cape-independence-and-the-right-of-conquest-in-south-africa/#respond Thu, 02 May 2024 18:05:35 +0000 https://consciousness.co.za/?p=15000 ”The white man is coming, and it is he who will rule you, and you will be his servants” ( Chaka by Thomas Mofolo). To fully comprehend the call for Cape Independence, one must have a solid understanding of the long history of the idea and political formation called South Africa. While the evolution of [...]

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]]> https://consciousness.co.za/cape-independence-and-the-right-of-conquest-in-south-africa/feed/ 0 The Sharpeville Massacre and the myth of “Human Rights Day” https://consciousness.co.za/the-sharpeville-massacre-and-the-myth-of-human-rights-day/ https://consciousness.co.za/the-sharpeville-massacre-and-the-myth-of-human-rights-day/#respond Thu, 04 Apr 2024 18:26:38 +0000 https://consciousness.co.za/?p=14960 In 1983 a book entitled “The rise of Azania: The fall of South Africa” by David Dube of the Pan-Africanist Congress, a call for the liberation and defence of  Azania was unapologetically made by the Azanian tradition. The Charterist tradition under the African National Congress defended the white settler’s colonial name of “South Africa”. This [...]

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]]> https://consciousness.co.za/the-sharpeville-massacre-and-the-myth-of-human-rights-day/feed/ 0 South Africa and the pitfalls of solidarity: A case of Israel and Palestine https://consciousness.co.za/south-africa-and-the-pitfalls-of-solidarity-a-case-of-israel-and-palestine/ https://consciousness.co.za/south-africa-and-the-pitfalls-of-solidarity-a-case-of-israel-and-palestine/#respond Thu, 04 Apr 2024 18:13:02 +0000 https://consciousness.co.za/?p=14957 “The biggest mistake the black world ever made was to assume that whoever opposed apartheid was an ally” (Steve Biko) The ongoing war in Palestine has taken a center stage in international affairs. This is partly due to the recent South African legal team’s submission to the so-called International Court of Justice. Since the legal [...]

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]]> https://consciousness.co.za/south-africa-and-the-pitfalls-of-solidarity-a-case-of-israel-and-palestine/feed/ 0 The Sharpeville massacre and the persistent problem of white settler colonialism in “South Africa”: A Dialectical Analysis https://consciousness.co.za/the-sharpeville-massacre-and-the-persistent-problem-of-white-settler-colonialism-in-south-africa-a-dialectical-analysis/ https://consciousness.co.za/the-sharpeville-massacre-and-the-persistent-problem-of-white-settler-colonialism-in-south-africa-a-dialectical-analysis/#respond Wed, 03 Apr 2024 18:30:22 +0000 https://consciousness.co.za/?p=14964 There is a dialectical relation between colonisation and decolonisation. This dialectical relation is dyadic and triadic. Decolonisation as a process of the undoing of colonisation seeks to negate colonisation. So, in terms of the dyadic dialectical relation the confrontational antagonism between the forces of decolonisation and the forces of colonisation must result in the survival [...]

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]]> https://consciousness.co.za/the-sharpeville-massacre-and-the-persistent-problem-of-white-settler-colonialism-in-south-africa-a-dialectical-analysis/feed/ 0 The problem of Afrikan politics and the danger of white politics in South Africa https://consciousness.co.za/the-problem-of-afrikan-politics-and-the-danger-of-white-politics-in-south-africa/ https://consciousness.co.za/the-problem-of-afrikan-politics-and-the-danger-of-white-politics-in-south-africa/#respond Thu, 28 Mar 2024 18:46:40 +0000 https://consciousness.co.za/?p=15010 One of the significant benefits of an Afrikan-centred study of European thought and behaviour is the fundamental discovery that “politics is the continuation of war by other means”. Politics in essence is about power. While elections are a function of a representative democracy, they are not the core of power. Elections are a mere aspect [...]

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]]> https://consciousness.co.za/the-problem-of-afrikan-politics-and-the-danger-of-white-politics-in-south-africa/feed/ 0 Tigritude: Of the Souls and Spiritual Strivings of Aime Cesaire and Leopold Senghor https://consciousness.co.za/tigritude-of-the-souls-and-spiritual-strivings-of-aime-cesaire-and-leopold-senghor/ https://consciousness.co.za/tigritude-of-the-souls-and-spiritual-strivings-of-aime-cesaire-and-leopold-senghor/#respond Tue, 12 Mar 2024 18:07:15 +0000 https://consciousness.co.za/?p=15003 “A tiger does not proclaim his tigritude, he pounces” (Wole Soyinka, 1964) The Newtonian equation that for every action there is a reaction is not just an axiom in classical physics. It also applies in the so-called social sciences and humanities. French colonialism and imperialism are the condition of possibility for the emergence of the [...]

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