ANC Archives - Consciousness.co.za Magazine https://consciousness.co.za/tag/anc/ Arts and African History Mon, 31 Mar 2025 18:01:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Western legal philosophy of conquest, the ANC and the ideology of Human Rights in “South Africa” https://consciousness.co.za/western-legal-philosophy-of-conquest-the-anc-and-the-ideology-of-human-rights-in-south-africa/ https://consciousness.co.za/western-legal-philosophy-of-conquest-the-anc-and-the-ideology-of-human-rights-in-south-africa/#respond Sat, 22 Mar 2025 18:01:11 +0000 https://consciousness.co.za/?p=15091 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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]]> https://consciousness.co.za/western-legal-philosophy-of-conquest-the-anc-and-the-ideology-of-human-rights-in-south-africa/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 Tsietsi Mashinini and the decline of Black Power in “post-Apartheid South Africa” https://consciousness.co.za/tsietsi-mashinini-and-the-decline-of-black-power-in-post-apartheid-south-africa/ https://consciousness.co.za/tsietsi-mashinini-and-the-decline-of-black-power-in-post-apartheid-south-africa/#respond Fri, 02 Feb 2024 18:21:20 +0000 https://consciousness.co.za/?p=15006 The 27th of January marks the birthday of Tsietsi Mashinini who in terms of South African history and politics symbolises the idea of Black Power. Black Power as embodied by the activists of 1976 was an important challenge to white power as epitomised by the Apartheid regime. The dialectic of Black Power and white power [...]

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]]> https://consciousness.co.za/tsietsi-mashinini-and-the-decline-of-black-power-in-post-apartheid-south-africa/feed/ 0 The poverty of Black Constitutional critique and the libidinal economy of South Africa https://consciousness.co.za/the-poverty-of-black-constitutional-critique-and-the-libidinal-economy-of-south-africa/ https://consciousness.co.za/the-poverty-of-black-constitutional-critique-and-the-libidinal-economy-of-south-africa/#respond Mon, 08 Jan 2024 17:14:57 +0000 https://consciousness.co.za/?p=14921 “I do not want to rainbow without bread, I do not want to hate Cecil and anthem with his children” “I do not want to white anymore…white demons drowning in the Atlantic” Makhafula Vilakazi in Words 2022. The annoying persistent fantasy of the rainbow nation has been subjected to a popular critique. Its banality has [...]

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]]> https://consciousness.co.za/the-poverty-of-black-constitutional-critique-and-the-libidinal-economy-of-south-africa/feed/ 0 The ANC condoned injustice. In fact, they colluded with it https://consciousness.co.za/the-anc-condoned-injustice-in-fact-they-colluded-with-it/ https://consciousness.co.za/the-anc-condoned-injustice-in-fact-they-colluded-with-it/#respond Wed, 11 Oct 2023 12:45:16 +0000 https://consciousness.co.za/?p=14902 (Inspired by a message to Bra Mike Stainbank, the rightful owner of the stolen trademark: The Apartheid Museum®, BHK expands on misery in occupied Azania) The 1994 Mandela project reinforces and reproduces injustice. Worst still, is that Afrikans cannot reclaim their human dignity, let alone their land and sovereignty without first respecting, loving, and doing [...]

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]]> https://consciousness.co.za/the-anc-condoned-injustice-in-fact-they-colluded-with-it/feed/ 0 The Lost Intellectual Orphan https://consciousness.co.za/the-lost-intellectual-orphan/ https://consciousness.co.za/the-lost-intellectual-orphan/#respond Wed, 11 Oct 2023 12:03:21 +0000 https://consciousness.co.za/?p=14892 The Lost “Intellectual Orphan” of the ANC: A Review of Radebe, M.J. (2022). The Lost Prince of the ANC: The Life and Times of Jabulani Nobleman ‘Mzala’ Nxumalo 1955-1991 “Marx has become a functional, philosophical, ancestral mentor-surrogate for intellectuals either ignorant of, or simply deprived of, their own philosophical lineages — they are intellectual orphans” [...]

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]]> https://consciousness.co.za/the-lost-intellectual-orphan/feed/ 0 The ideology of Human Rights as a Eurocentric enterprise https://consciousness.co.za/the-ideology-of-human-rights-as-a-eurocentric-enterprise/ https://consciousness.co.za/the-ideology-of-human-rights-as-a-eurocentric-enterprise/#respond Thu, 27 Jul 2023 10:29:53 +0000 https://consciousness.co.za/?p=14855 Conquest, the ANC and the ideology of Human Rights in South Africa Prior to the hegemony of the Congress Tradition as epitomised by the African National Congress as a civil rights movement, 21 March 1960 was celebrated as the day of the Sharpeville Massacre. The Azanian Tradition as spearheaded by Robert Sobukwe is behind the [...]

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]]> https://consciousness.co.za/the-ideology-of-human-rights-as-a-eurocentric-enterprise/feed/ 0 World Intellectual Property Day 2023 https://consciousness.co.za/world-intellectual-property-day-2023/ https://consciousness.co.za/world-intellectual-property-day-2023/#respond Wed, 26 Apr 2023 12:11:50 +0000 https://consciousness.co.za/?p=14813 Mike Stainbank is active on Twitter: @DefineRacism1 and @2001_019108_08 WEBSITE: www.fraud2001-019108-08.org.za

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]]> https://consciousness.co.za/world-intellectual-property-day-2023/feed/ 0 South Africa in dire need of leaders willing to sacrifice https://consciousness.co.za/south-africa-in-dire-need-of-leaders-willing-to-sacrifice/ https://consciousness.co.za/south-africa-in-dire-need-of-leaders-willing-to-sacrifice/#respond Fri, 24 Feb 2023 10:16:14 +0000 https://consciousness.co.za/?p=14807 One of the various qualities of authentic leadership is sacrifice. Authentic leaders are always willing to make sacrifices in order to elevate the people and steer their nations in the direction of development. They are always willing to set aside their interests for the greater good. Thomas Sankara: an African revolutionary One such leader in [...]

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]]> https://consciousness.co.za/south-africa-in-dire-need-of-leaders-willing-to-sacrifice/feed/ 0 South African non-racialism and its discontents https://consciousness.co.za/south-african-non-racialism-and-its-discontents/ https://consciousness.co.za/south-african-non-racialism-and-its-discontents/#respond Sun, 21 Aug 2022 10:10:22 +0000 https://consciousness.co.za/?p=14846 The resolution of the national question is one of the conditions of possibility for the relatively smooth running of government. A coherent national identity premised on a given ideology serves as a foundation for an effective bureaucracy. The resolution of the national question depends on the historical evolution of a nation. In the South African [...]

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