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Cape Independence and “the right of conquest” in South Africa

Masilo Lepuru — Thu, 02 May 2024 18:05:35 +0000

”The white man is coming, and it is he who will rule you, and you will be his servants” ( Chaka by Thomas Mofolo). To fully comprehend the call for Cape Independence, one must have a solid understanding of the long history of the idea and political formation called South Africa. While the evolution of [...]

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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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Dear black first year Students

Matimba Mkansi — Thu, 08 Mar 2018 16:15:04 +0000

Fresher, here is your Free Education! Black child, did you know that by your 3rd year of study you will develop an accent; you will feel like you belong in Sandton with people of class? Your village and your people ‘back home’ might appear like they were an accident in your life, whose primary duty [...]

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The Silent Holocaust: The Belgian Genocide of the Congo

Consciousness Admin — Mon, 29 Jun 2015 20:43:30 +0000

Source: http://originalblackthought.blogspot.com/ In our reflection upon the grand history and innumerable events of humanity’s past we are inevitably forced to once again encounter the horrors and inhuman transgressions that our forebearers have made against others as well as the transgressions that have been made against our forebearers by others. In contemporary history there is perhaps no [...]

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The Herero and Namaqua Genocide

Wesley Pepper — Sun, 10 May 2015 19:28:49 +0000

Source: http://www.ezakwantu.com/ Ovaherero – Nama – Hottentot Decimate Annihilate Slaughter Murder The Herero or Ovaherero – were nomadic herdsman who at the time of European contact, lived in Namibia and Botswana. They comprised several subgroups, which include the Himba, Ovatjimba, Mbanderu or Ovambanderu and the Kwandu. Related groups living in Angola include the Kuvale, Zemba, Hakawona, [...]

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