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Final farewell for Ntate Dr. Motsoko Pheko

BlackHouse Kollective Soweto — Thu, 02 May 2024 18:58:15 +0000

Dr Motsoko Pheko: Azanian Revolutionary, Legal Scholer, Philosopher, Author, Historian, Leader, Pan Afrikanist, Internationalist, Husband, Father & Grandfather. OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE FROM THE PHEKO FAMILY The final farewell for Ntate Dr. Motsoko Pheko will take place on Saturday, May 4th, 2024, at Rosebank Union Church, located at 40 St Andrews Road, Hurlingham, Sandton, Gauteng. The [...]

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A note of condolence to The Pheko family on the passing of Dr. Motsoko Pheko

BlackHouse Kollective Soweto — Wed, 01 May 2024 18:03:46 +0000

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Sobukwe Speaking to a Basotholand African Congress Party, Conference in Lesotho in 1957

BlackHouse Kollective Soweto — Mon, 04 Mar 2024 17:07:26 +0000

Mr. Speaker, Sir, Sons and Daughters of the soil, I wish, in opening this conference, to quote the caption which appears on “Mohlabani” since it expresses so clearly the reason for our sustained struggle: “Tsoara thebe e tiee oa Rasenate, Oa bona fatse leno lea ea.” ( Hold fast thy shield, son of Rasenate, Thou [...]

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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 ideology of Human Rights as a Eurocentric enterprise

Masilo Lepuru — Thu, 27 Jul 2023 10:29:53 +0000

Conquest, the ANC and the ideology of Human Rights in South Africa Prior to the hegemony of the Congress Tradition as epitomised by the African National Congress as a civil rights movement, 21 March 1960 was celebrated as the day of the Sharpeville Massacre. The Azanian Tradition as spearheaded by Robert Sobukwe is behind the [...]

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The Sharpeville Leader: Michael Nyakane Tsolo

Thandolwetu Sipuye — Tue, 24 Mar 2020 15:32:42 +0000

By Gladys Qabukile Nzimande-Tsolo When people speak about the Sharpeville-Langa Massacres that occurred on 21st March 1960, key figures and role players in that historical moment that changed the course of history in Azania get lost. One such figure is the 20 years old man who led the Positive Action Campaign Against Pass Laws initiated [...]

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Inconsistencies in affirming Sobukwe’s legacy: A response to Benzi Ka-Soko

Thandolwetu Sipuye — Fri, 03 Aug 2018 15:59:56 +0000

The timely City Press article by Benzi Ka-Soko on Sunday, 15 July 2018, titled “Affirming Sobukwe’s Legacy Is Imperative”, is an excellent and timely intervention in acknowledging Sobukwe’s towering, yet concealed and obscured, role in the Azanian (SA) liberation struggle, both as a political ideologue, an intellectual and a philosopher par excellence. Ka-Soko’s contribution must be [...]

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Re-Membering Nyakane Tsolo: The True History Of Sharpeville Must Be Told

Thandolwetu Sipuye — Thu, 08 Mar 2018 16:54:39 +0000

Post-1994 South Africa has a theatrical crisis of selective amnesia and partisan re-memberings of history. History telling, whether at school, university, in the media or public celebrations and commemorative events, is biased towards a singular political trajectory and one particular school of thought that is portrayed as the sole agents of the socio-economic and political [...]

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Inaugural Zondeni Veronica Sobukwe Tribute Lecture by Mo’Afrika Ellen Mothopeng

Thandolwetu Sipuye — Mon, 28 Aug 2017 14:42:18 +0000

90 Years of Struggle, Suffering & Sacrifice , delivered by Mo’Afrika Ellen Mothopeng, former President Africanist Woman’s Organization (AWO) -12 August 2017 Izwe Lethu Ma’Afrika! Let me tell you what a great honour it is to have been invited to deliver this inaugural Tribute Lecture. I would like to personally thank the Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe [...]

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In death Sobukwe continues to languish in solitary confinement, house arrest and bannished from South African national consciousness

Thandolwetu Sipuye — Mon, 27 Feb 2017 07:57:45 +0000

Nothing dramatizes the continued silencing, burial and incarceration of Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe like the recent article by the esteemed University of Cape Town Professor, Xolela Mangcu. The article, titled ‘Imagining Our Institutions As They Should Be’, was meant to be a treatise on educational institutions in South Africa, but turned out to be a fine [...]

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