BRING BACK THE BLACK “LOST SHEEP” BACK TO ITS BLACK SHEPHERDS
I think it is about time we asked white people to bring back to us, black people. I’m talking about the black people White society, globally, has used and no longer has use of. Active observation has shown that there’s plenty of such. They’ve gone beyond expiry date. The Black folks could, I bet, find […]
BIKO: A LIGHT IN A TIME OF DARKNESS
Nothing describes and summarises Steve Biko’s brief but sufficient life on earth as does the title of the legendary Alice Walker’s 2007 book, We are the Ones We have Been Waiting For: Inner Light in a Time of Darkness. While he died at the tender age of 30, he would have turned 79 this coming December. […]
IN MEMORIAM: JB VILAKAZI – FIFTY YEARS ON, A LIFE STILL MOURNED, A LEGACY STILL HONOURED
This month marks fifty years since the violent and unresolved death of Jabu Bernard Vilakazi, a man whose life was as generous as it was tragically cut short. As we pay tribute to this atypical liberation struggle hero, we remember a life that defied the odds and took a stand to be a protector of […]
“ABSURD FOR ANYONE IN ANC TO EQUATE SACP’S ELECTION CONTESTATION TO THE MKP – A PARTY FOUNDED ON ETHNIC MOBILIZATION AND CHAUVINISM” – SAMBATHA
A few days ago, I read with distraught an article in one of the country’s leading newspapers titled: “Consider the implications’: ANC officials warn SACP against contesting elections”. The opening sequence of the article goes further proclaiming the following: “The ANC’s national officials have warned the SACP it could suffer the same fate as former […]
FREEDOM PARK TO HOLD A SYMPOSIUM ON YOUTH ACTIVISM TO COMPARE AND REFLECT ON DIFFERENT EPOCHS
Freedom Park, in collaboration with Keeloz Global Entertainment, will on Saturday June 21 hold a symposium to focus on the role of youth activism through different political eras, before and after the advent of democracy in 1994. The main theme of the day for the engaging intergenerational dialogue will be titled: Youth Activism: Then and […]
SOWETO’S NALEDI HIGH SCHOOL MOULDED MEN AND WOMEN OF INTEGRITY
Having scaled the heights of life, a summit of which I reached having climbed the ladder of success step-by-step, I look back at the role that my township Alma Matar Naledi High School played in shaping me to be a kind of man I became. Naledi High School was a place of growth and discovery. […]
ZAMA-ZAMAS OF THE LIBERATION STRUGGLE
An exploration of memory, myth, and the posthumous mining of liberation credentials Gold from the Grave These days, it seems that to die in South Africa is to finally receive your liberation stripes. A friend sent me a link to a social media tribute the other day. The dearly departed was someone we had all […]