Dr. Luvuyo Mthimkhulu Dondolo Archives - Consciousness.co.za Magazine https://consciousness.co.za/tag/dr-luvuyo-mthimkhulu-dondolo/ Arts and African History Thu, 05 Jul 2018 12:37:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Beneath the Surface: Historical Inconsistencies and Misrepresentations of Historical Specificities https://consciousness.co.za/beneath-the-surface-historical-inconsistencies-and-misrepresentations-of-historical-specificities/ https://consciousness.co.za/beneath-the-surface-historical-inconsistencies-and-misrepresentations-of-historical-specificities/#respond Thu, 05 Jul 2018 12:36:21 +0000 https://consciousness.co.za/?p=13242 This piece is the critique of the critique. The article titled ‘ANC version of history overshadows the real story of resistance’ by Panashe Chigumadzi on the Sunday Times newspaper dated 17 June 2018 serves as a reference. This article was intended to highlight the falsification of history by the ruling party – African National Congress [...]

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]]> https://consciousness.co.za/beneath-the-surface-historical-inconsistencies-and-misrepresentations-of-historical-specificities/feed/ 0 Complexities of the Four Nation Thesis: The Contested Renaming of the South African Airports https://consciousness.co.za/complexities-of-the-four-nation-thesis-the-contested-renaming-of-the-south-african-airports/ https://consciousness.co.za/complexities-of-the-four-nation-thesis-the-contested-renaming-of-the-south-african-airports/#respond Mon, 25 Jun 2018 13:30:26 +0000 https://consciousness.co.za/?p=13226 The Department of Transport and the Airports Company South Africa (ACSA) have been holding public meetings over changing the airport’s name. The incident that was witnessed on 5 June 2018 at the Cape Town International Airport, when tempers flared between the members of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) – who want it be named after [...]

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]]> https://consciousness.co.za/complexities-of-the-four-nation-thesis-the-contested-renaming-of-the-south-african-airports/feed/ 0 Blacks Can’t Be Racist: Moeletsi Mbeki’s Artificial Post-Racial Destination In South Africa https://consciousness.co.za/blacks-cant-be-racist-moeletsi-mbekis-artificial-post-racial-destination-in-south-africa/ https://consciousness.co.za/blacks-cant-be-racist-moeletsi-mbekis-artificial-post-racial-destination-in-south-africa/#respond Mon, 28 May 2018 10:18:07 +0000 https://consciousness.co.za/?p=13218 Moeletsi Mbeki’s statement about Julius Malema as ‘a black racist’ – as he pushes for land expropriation without compensation – in an article on the Citizen newspaper website dated 15 /05/2018 is misleading and problematic at various levels: historicity of the land issue, present reality and racialised inequality and poverty which, to some extent, relates [...]

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