Freedom day Archives - Consciousness.co.za Magazine https://consciousness.co.za/tag/freedom-day/ Arts and African History Thu, 09 May 2024 15:02:56 +0000 en-US hourly 1 South Africa’s constitutional democracy and thirty years without Izwe Lethu https://consciousness.co.za/south-africas-constitutional-democracy-and-thirty-years-without-izwe-lethu/ https://consciousness.co.za/south-africas-constitutional-democracy-and-thirty-years-without-izwe-lethu/#respond Thu, 09 May 2024 15:01:36 +0000 https://consciousness.co.za/?p=15022 Jan Van Riebeek once stated in the late 1600s that the Dutch settlers who dispossessed the Indigenous people of their land through “defensive warfare” intend to retain the land. Van Riebeek was affirming without shame “the right of conquest” and laying the foundation of South Africa and white settler constitutionalism which are based on land [...]

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