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Graaff-Reinet: Persistence of white supremacy in the Eastern Cape under democracy

Thandolwetu Sipuye — Mon, 24 Jun 2019 11:46:34 +0000

Racism – white supremacy – is still deeply entrenched and memorialised in most, if not all, the former settler colonial towns and cities of South Africa. In fact, institutionalised racism and institutions that represent racism and white colonial power are protected by the constitution, the supreme law of the land in South Africa, and are [...]

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MAMA VERONICA SOBUKWE RECEIVES ORDER OF LUTHULI: AN HONOUR TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE

Thandolwetu Sipuye — Mon, 07 May 2018 11:15:06 +0000

On the 28th April 2018, a day after Freedom Day, 90 years old struggle stalwart and anti-apartheid activist affectionately known as the ‘Mother of Azania’, Mama Zondeni Veronica Sobukwe, will be awarded the Order of Luthuli: Silver by South African President, Cyril Ramaphosa, at the Sefako Makgatho Presidential Guest House in Pretoria. Her son and [...]

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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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40th Anniversary of the death of Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe

Thandolwetu Sipuye — Mon, 19 Feb 2018 09:51:40 +0000

University of Fort Hare’s Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe Seminar Series Eastern Cape – On Tuesday, 27th February 2018 (Sobukwe Day) the University of Fort Hare (UFH) Centre for Transdisciplinary Studies African Intellectual Resistance & Liberation Heritage Project, in partnership with Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe Trust (RMST) and the African Institute for Knowledge and Sustainability (AIKS), will host [...]

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Re- Steve Biko 40 Years On: Inspiration Beyond A Lifetime 40th Anniversary of the Death of Bantu Stephen Biko

Thandolwetu Sipuye — Fri, 08 Sep 2017 08:33:15 +0000

South Africa – September 12th, 2017 marks the 40th anniversary of the murder of Bantu Stephen Biko in police detention. Steve Biko, who was born on December 18th, 1946, would have been in his 70th year. To commemorate the milestone, the Steve Biko Foundation has curated a series of events under the banner “Steve Biko [...]

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June 16 Students’ Uprising & The Erasure of Women

Thandolwetu Sipuye — Wed, 21 Jun 2017 18:42:19 +0000

Last week Friday marked 41 years since the Soweto Students’ Uprising that took place on the 16th June 1976, a day that ushered a decisive turning point in the liberation struggle in Azania (SA). Today the day is a celebrated national holiday rebranded as ‘Youth Day’, a day in which contributions of young people in [...]

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Bastardizing Bantu Biko and his legacy is cheap politics

Thandolwetu Sipuye — Mon, 27 Mar 2017 08:32:02 +0000

In recent years there’s been serious contestations for and about the legacy of Bantu Biko; concerted efforts by both intellectuals as well as politicians to appropriate Biko for their own agendas. Various groups and individuals, whether political, social or grassroots, have all claimed Biko – his ideas, his philosophy and his very soul – for [...]

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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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Only privilege speaks: White racism & black hypocrisy(Around hair politics) in South Africa

Thandolwetu Sipuye — Mon, 05 Sep 2016 06:48:59 +0000

Privilege and proximity to whiteness speaks. A position of privilege and relative proximity to whiteness not only gives you a voice to speak in this country, it also provides you with an inter-national audience, ministerial interventions, public outrage, debates and dialogues. And of course, you form part of the ‘national narrative’. The recent protest by [...]

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