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The Azanian Family Remembering Bantu Biko, Honouring the Elders Who Tend to Our Liberation History with Care

BlackHouse Kollective Soweto — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 16:53:22 +0000

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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The Third Annual Azanian Decoloniality Community Winter School On Art And Black Radical Thought

BlackHouse Kollective Soweto — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 09:30:34 +0000

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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Sabbatical: A Mother’s Scorn, a Daughter’s Descent, and the Ghosts of a Nation’s Past

Xolani Mthombeni — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 19:24:16 +0000

Diprente, it seems, isn’t content with mere entertainment; they’re excavating the raw nerve of South African society with Sabbatical, a film that grips you by the throat and refuses to let go. Forget your predictable narratives of aspiration; Karabo Lediga’s latest offering is a searing indictment of ambition untethered from morality, a brutal examination of [...]

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Heritage and Transmission: A Reading of Sobukwe.

Masilo Lepuru — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 18:05:16 +0000

“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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Western legal philosophy of conquest, the ANC and the ideology of Human Rights in “South Africa”

Consciousness Admin — Sat, 22 Mar 2025 18:01:11 +0000

Introduction Before the dominance of the Charterist tradition, as represented by the African National Congress (ANC) as a civil rights movement, 21 March 1960 was celebrated as the day of the Sharpeville Massacre. This massacre of Africans by the Apartheid regime was the most violent expression of settler colonialism in “South Africa”[1]. The uprising, leading [...]

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Biko and the biography of Black people

Masilo Lepuru — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 12:48:16 +0000

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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A telling tale that keeps giving

Xolani Mthombeni — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 18:59:40 +0000

Storytelling is one of the most intricate and thickest tentacles of soft power. It maps and drives the compass of the mind into a labyrinth flurry of thought, expression, emotion, stimulation and a direction. A host of writers and authors have told stories that speak to the listener and readers in variable forms, tiers and [...]

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Changing the Game on the real

Xolani Mthombeni — Sun, 01 Dec 2024 18:54:16 +0000

A legend is legendary, the title is aptly befittingly bestowed on them for their distinctively excellent work that has been promulgated and has unrelentingly permeated their relevant field. At times their exertions cross over and overlap to remote territories. Their pioneering work is accosted by an unexploited footprint that they have long ear-marked as a [...]

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When Compassion Meets Diversity

Xolani Mthombeni — Sat, 30 Nov 2024 18:56:58 +0000

As the holiday season is in full swing, many will return to their bucolic surroundings to bid farewell to a year that was filled with hard work, shying away from fatigue,and the bustle of deviating from honking traffic to being besieged with an unending workload. Also, a handful of the exodus are ejecting out of [...]

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Prof Chabani Manganyi, JET’s first CEO

Motsumi Makhene — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 11:15:46 +0000

As the first Executive Director of the Joint Education Trust, along side Nick Taylor, Prof. Manganyi became the champion benefactor to support the establishment of the Funda Community College, as we imagine it today, in 1994. As a close associate of Prof. Eskia Mphahlele he contributed towards 1. The building of the new Central Administration [...]

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