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Thirty years of South African constitutional democracy and the crisis of Black Thought

Masilo Lepuru — Fri, 10 May 2024 10:00:42 +0000

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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Tsietsi Mashinini and the decline of Black Power in “post-Apartheid South Africa”

Masilo Lepuru — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 18:21:20 +0000

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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The poverty of Black Constitutional critique and the libidinal economy of South Africa

Masilo Lepuru — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 17:14:57 +0000

“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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Reminiscence Of Apartheid: Illegal Migrants, Foreigners & The Dompass

Thandolwetu Sipuye — Tue, 17 May 2022 13:57:45 +0000

The death of Elvis Nyathi in Diepsloot two weeks ago is not only a tragedy of a people captured and confined in an Orwellian type of ‘animal farm’, but, in fact, a consequence of the dominance and persistence of racist colonialist concepts and the ignorant consumption of eurocentric definitions of reality and phenomena. Nyathi, like [...]

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Apartheid Denialism and Historical Distortion go hand in hand

Thandolwetu Sipuye — Tue, 24 Mar 2020 13:43:15 +0000

By Julia Nzimande The 27th February 2020 marked the 42nd anniversary of the death in banishment of Prof. Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe. In remembering Sobukwe we must introspect, look deep within ourselves to weed out any vices that make us less of the beings we ought to be: free, dignified and The 21st March 2020 will [...]

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Africa Expects Solutions from It’s Predators

Ben Themba Silindza — Fri, 03 Jan 2020 13:17:07 +0000

Sometimes I lose hope that Africa will ever be great again. We are not even moving an inch towards our liberation and what is sad is that most of Africans are under the myth that we are now free and some are even going around claiming they defeated apartheid. It Is a myth that apartheid [...]

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Reconciliation

Ben Themba Silindza — Mon, 16 Dec 2019 12:28:54 +0000

It is surprising that the whites in South African are the ones who are mostly talking about forgetting the past and moving forward in order to rebuild the country. They are forgetting that the past shapes the future, if one forgets the past he is unlikely to be succeed in the future because he will [...]

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Graaff-Reinet: Persistence of white supremacy in the Eastern Cape under democracy

Thandolwetu Sipuye — Mon, 24 Jun 2019 11:46:34 +0000

Racism – white supremacy – is still deeply entrenched and memorialised in most, if not all, the former settler colonial towns and cities of South Africa. In fact, institutionalised racism and institutions that represent racism and white colonial power are protected by the constitution, the supreme law of the land in South Africa, and are [...]

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Book Review – Native Life in South Africa – Sol Plaatje

Consciousness Admin — Sun, 22 Nov 2015 15:32:04 +0000

The theory of Natural selection says that the strongest will survive and the weak will perish; adapt or die! So what about the colonized, the enslaved and the oppressed? One might argue that it all depends on which side of the pistol or whip you happen to be on, besides no empire was ever built [...]

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Bantu Steve Biko’s mini biography and he speaks on The Black Consciousness Movement

Consciousness Admin — Tue, 20 Oct 2015 22:00:52 +0000

This is a rare interview which took place just before the assassination of Steve Bantu Biko, he speaks on The Black Consciousness Movement. Your browser does not support the video tag. Mini Biography of Bantu Steve Biko. Posted on YouTube by @Duron Chavis

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