Don Mattera Archives - Consciousness.co.za Magazine https://consciousness.co.za/tag/don-mattera/ Arts and African History Tue, 27 Sep 2022 10:17:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Memory is a weapon: Reflections on the Doctrine of Discovery in South Africa https://consciousness.co.za/memory-is-a-weapon-reflections-on-the-doctrine-of-discovery-in-south-africa/ https://consciousness.co.za/memory-is-a-weapon-reflections-on-the-doctrine-of-discovery-in-south-africa/#respond Tue, 19 Jul 2022 09:59:03 +0000 https://consciousness.co.za/?p=14770 “Look at us, we have been here before. Long before others came to our shores. Long before other conquerors came” (Don Mattera in Azanian Love Song). Azania as opposed to “South Africa” has recently mourned the transition of Don Mattera. On the other hand, the UK is currently mourning the death of Queen Elizabeth. Since [...]

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]]> https://consciousness.co.za/memory-is-a-weapon-reflections-on-the-doctrine-of-discovery-in-south-africa/feed/ 0 Don Mattera https://consciousness.co.za/don-mattera/ https://consciousness.co.za/don-mattera/#respond Tue, 02 Jul 2019 14:58:36 +0000 https://consciousness.co.za/?p=13590 Source: https://www.sahistory.org.za Donato Francisco Mattera was born in Western Native Township, now called Westbury, Johannesburg in 1935. His grandfather was an Italian immigrant who married a Xhosa or Khoisan woman from the Cape. His grandfather then moved to Johannesburg where Mattera’s father was born and classified Italian by the authorities. His mother was a Motswana [...]

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]]> https://consciousness.co.za/don-mattera/feed/ 0 Conversations With Yesterday: An Evening With Don Mattera https://consciousness.co.za/conversations-with-yesterday-an-evening-wit-don-mattera/ https://consciousness.co.za/conversations-with-yesterday-an-evening-wit-don-mattera/#comments Mon, 04 Apr 2011 12:15:15 +0000 https://consciousness.co.za/?p=3999 In my mind, I had always imagined yesterday as a personified, moving allegory of the deceptive hands of time. A noun as opposed to an adverb. She would be a great speaker oozing provocative diatribes. Adorned in fitting attire, she would be an enceinte symbol of rhetoric, lest mundane thinking beset us. Aristotle would dress [...]

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