Yamkela Fortune Spengane, Author at Consciousness.co.za Magazine https://consciousness.co.za/author/yamkela-fortune-spengane/ Arts and African History Fri, 11 Sep 2020 10:53:06 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Chadwick Boseman Rest In Power https://consciousness.co.za/chadwick-boseman-rest-in-power/ https://consciousness.co.za/chadwick-boseman-rest-in-power/#respond Fri, 11 Sep 2020 10:53:06 +0000 https://consciousness.co.za/?p=14341 Chadwick Boseman’s work was about activism. He took a huge interest in making film biographies of towering black figures who pioneered many spaces where black people were deliberately excluded and prejudiced if allowed. Such stories are critical in many ways, whether you want to look at them from a representation perspective or historical documentation of [...]

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]]> https://consciousness.co.za/chadwick-boseman-rest-in-power/feed/ 0 Understanding why the taxi industry is the way it is and why their protests are justified https://consciousness.co.za/understanding-why-the-taxi-industry-is-the-way-it-is-and-why-their-protests-are-justified/ https://consciousness.co.za/understanding-why-the-taxi-industry-is-the-way-it-is-and-why-their-protests-are-justified/#respond Mon, 22 Jun 2020 14:37:30 +0000 https://consciousness.co.za/?p=13939 Today saw the beginning of yet another major taxi industry strike, who are protesting against the relief fund of R1 billion offered by the government to the industry as being too little to make any significant difference in the plight they are facing as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. As usual, a lot of [...]

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]]> https://consciousness.co.za/understanding-why-the-taxi-industry-is-the-way-it-is-and-why-their-protests-are-justified/feed/ 0 On Mosioua Lekota’s allegation that Cyril Ramaphosa betrayed them in 1974 https://consciousness.co.za/on-mosioua-lekotas-allegation-that-cyril-ramaphosa-betrayed-them-in-1974/ https://consciousness.co.za/on-mosioua-lekotas-allegation-that-cyril-ramaphosa-betrayed-them-in-1974/#respond Sat, 16 Feb 2019 10:38:31 +0000 https://consciousness.co.za/?p=13364 As a disclaimer: I am not saying that Cyril Ramaphosa was a spy or anything of that nature, I am saying that Terror Lekota’s accusation is something that he sold his comrades out is very serious, and it cannot be left to people to conclude by themselves who is telling the truth and who isn’t [...]

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]]> https://consciousness.co.za/on-mosioua-lekotas-allegation-that-cyril-ramaphosa-betrayed-them-in-1974/feed/ 0 Solly Mapaila’s comments on Mangaliso Sobukwe – A case of the continued distortion of the history of the struggle against apartheid https://consciousness.co.za/solly-mapailas-comments-on-mangaliso-sobukwe-a-case-of-the-continued-distortion-of-the-history-of-the-struggle-against-apartheid/ https://consciousness.co.za/solly-mapailas-comments-on-mangaliso-sobukwe-a-case-of-the-continued-distortion-of-the-history-of-the-struggle-against-apartheid/#respond Thu, 14 Feb 2019 10:47:50 +0000 https://consciousness.co.za/?p=13370 by Yamkela F Spengane and Malaika Wa Azania “Hide nothing from the masses of our people. Tell no lies. Expose lies whenever they are told. Mask no difficulties, mistakes, failures. Claim no easy victories.” – Amilcar Cabral, Revolution in Guinea (1969) On Tuesday, Solly Mapaila, the First Deputy General Secretary of the South African Communist Party, made [...]

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]]> https://consciousness.co.za/solly-mapailas-comments-on-mangaliso-sobukwe-a-case-of-the-continued-distortion-of-the-history-of-the-struggle-against-apartheid/feed/ 0 Fees Must Fall – Fee free education is a just revolutionary demand https://consciousness.co.za/fees-must-fall-fee-free-education-just-revolutionary-demand/ https://consciousness.co.za/fees-must-fall-fee-free-education-just-revolutionary-demand/#respond Sun, 25 Sep 2016 16:15:31 +0000 https://consciousness.co.za/?p=12574 The Minister of Higher Education, Dr Blade Nzimande, held a press briefing on Tuesday 20th September 2016 in which he announced a recommendation of university fees to increase by up to 8%, with the shortfall for what the minister says is the “missing middle” students (from households earning below R600 000 per annum) and poor students [...]

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]]> https://consciousness.co.za/fees-must-fall-fee-free-education-just-revolutionary-demand/feed/ 0 Commentary and references to the Sipho Pityana article https://consciousness.co.za/commentary-references-sipho-pityana-article/ https://consciousness.co.za/commentary-references-sipho-pityana-article/#comments Mon, 05 Sep 2016 09:06:53 +0000 https://consciousness.co.za/?p=12457 *** For those who don’t know the Sipho Pityana article I am talking about,  you can find it here: https://consciousness.co.za/sipho-pityana-grandstander-faction-anc-pocket-white-monopoly-capital/ After reading through the comments that were made on the Sipho Pityana piece over the last week, I went through a lot of emotions, but the most prevalent of them was sadness… I felt the [...]

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]]> https://consciousness.co.za/commentary-references-sipho-pityana-article/feed/ 2 Sipho Pityana is a grandstander of a faction of the ANC that is in the pocket of white monopoly capital https://consciousness.co.za/sipho-pityana-grandstander-faction-anc-pocket-white-monopoly-capital/ https://consciousness.co.za/sipho-pityana-grandstander-faction-anc-pocket-white-monopoly-capital/#comments Mon, 29 Aug 2016 08:52:04 +0000 https://consciousness.co.za/?p=12404 AFTER READING THIS ARTICLE FOLLOW UP WITH YAMKELA’S COMMENTARY, CLICK HERE So everyone is carrying on about the bravery of the Sipho Pityana for calling out the “moral decay” of the ANC and saying Jacob Zuma should resign at Makhenkesi Stofile’s funeral on Thursday. I also then took time to listen. He spoke of how [...]

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]]> https://consciousness.co.za/sipho-pityana-grandstander-faction-anc-pocket-white-monopoly-capital/feed/ 5 The meticulous engineering of the black child’s failure https://consciousness.co.za/the-meticulous-engineering-of-the-black-childs-failure/ https://consciousness.co.za/the-meticulous-engineering-of-the-black-childs-failure/#respond Wed, 02 Mar 2016 10:35:36 +0000 https://consciousness.co.za/?p=13361 The setting here is anti-pedagogical, and we needn’t even look at this picture twice to see that it is in all angles an abomination that school children should be outside, at the mercy of the elements, while supposedly receiving “education”. The sad part however is that society has normalised that the black child be subjected to [...]

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]]> https://consciousness.co.za/the-meticulous-engineering-of-the-black-childs-failure/feed/ 0 America and immigrants https://consciousness.co.za/america-and-immigrants/ https://consciousness.co.za/america-and-immigrants/#respond Wed, 02 Mar 2016 10:25:45 +0000 https://consciousness.co.za/?p=13357 Unless one is of native American ancestry, then one can’t claim nativity of the United States of America. This simply means that way less than 5% of the 320 million strong population can claim some form of ancestry that links them to territorial America. In the 1500s, immigrants from Europe gave themselves unwarranted right to invade [...]

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]]> https://consciousness.co.za/america-and-immigrants/feed/ 0 An in-depth view of what fuels Xenophobia attacks https://consciousness.co.za/an-in-depth-view-of-what-fuels-xenophobia-attacks/ https://consciousness.co.za/an-in-depth-view-of-what-fuels-xenophobia-attacks/#respond Sun, 19 Apr 2015 21:33:43 +0000 https://consciousness.co.za/?p=9547 It is very easy to type and deliberate about Xenophobia from a smartphone and tablet computer on social networking forums. But the truth is that the people who usually take steps of these attacks that are labelled as xenophobic are the lumpen proliteriate who are in the dire straits of total economic strangulation that this [...]

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