A collection of opinion and book review posts
Re-Membering Nyakane Tsolo: The True History Of Sharpeville Must Be Told
Post-1994 South Africa has a theatrical crisis of selective amnesia and partisan re-memberings of history.…
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Dear black first year Students
Fresher, here is your Free Education! Black child, did you know that by your 3rd…
Land redress in South Africa, it’s either now or never
The land question in South Africa has spun around the significant imbalances in access to…
Do hashtags save lives?
A couple of years back we took our rage to social media over the 276…
Behold ,an extension of change
Pan- Africanism is the most efficient and progressive ideology that is not only a propellant…
Inaugural Zondeni Veronica Sobukwe Tribute Lecture by Mo’Afrika Ellen Mothopeng
90 Years of Struggle, Suffering & Sacrifice , delivered by Mo’Afrika Ellen Mothopeng, former President…
The silent voices of the forgotten masses
(The encoring cries of the poor) All over the world throughout history, it has been…
Zondeni Veronica Sobukwe 90 Years of Struggle, Suffering & Sacrifice
TODAY, July 27 2017, marks the 90th birthday of Zondeni Veronica Sobukwe, the forgotten, ignored and…
Mirror of History (Book review)
MIRROR OF HISTORY is an African history book written by Mashabela who believes that it…
June 16 Students’ Uprising & The Erasure of Women
Last week Friday marked 41 years since the Soweto Students’ Uprising that took place on…
JUSTICE FOR TINYIKO – The whole South African Society FAILS (Black) Women
Ignorance against violence and abuse of women is as real as the air we breathe.…
Are black working-class children on their own?
This year marks the 21th anniversary of the adoption of our constitution, the world-renowned document…
Strong Vaginas, Weak Mothers
Her: Hello Lor, oh I heard you delivered, awww congratulations. Me: Thank you. Her: How…
Bastardizing Bantu Biko and his legacy is cheap politics
In recent years there’s been serious contestations for and about the legacy of Bantu Biko;…
Why Zuma Cannot Afford to Fire Bathabile Dlamini?
The phrase, “The more things change, the more they stay the same,” describes a difficult…
Lecture by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
It is always interesting to read the headlines that follow after students contest spaces. One…
What will a civilized Africa look like?
Ideas we have been told, rule the world. Some ideas could start as being ridiculous…
In death Sobukwe continues to languish in solitary confinement, house arrest and bannished from South African national consciousness
Nothing dramatizes the continued silencing, burial and incarceration of Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe like the recent…
Love is a two letter word : ME
She stared at his fat face without emotion as she slid up and down his…
Has Mngxitama sold his revolutionary conviction for a living?
For a while now, Black First Land First (BLF) leader Andile Mngxitama has been making…