[Azania Rising] Three decades since the official demise of apartheid, South Africa remains wedded to a system where political freedom conceals enduring economic servitude. The democratic turning point of 1994 celebrated globally as giving birth to the “Rainbow Nation” promised liberation—but delivered an orchestrated compromise. […]
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By Masilo Lepuru “Power is the ability to define reality and to impose it on other people as if it is their own definition” (Wade Nobles) Systems of domination are based on ideas. This is because power “begins at the level of formulation […]
history politics
By Nancy Monnya if you forced your way into my house, forced me and my children to speak your language, pray to your god and fear you like you were some god, work me like a slave and tell me I am the sporne […]
introspection politics
“How can he be considered great, since he has been a philosopher for so long and has never yet disturbed anybody? (Nietzsche in Untimely Meditations, p 194) “…it is only by means of the common characteristic of being German that we can avert the downfall […]
history philosophy politics
“A people who lose their historical memory becomes a very fragile people. They regress. It is historical memory that permits them to be a strong people”. (Cheikh Anta Diop, in Great African Thinkers) “Black people reject this… it is a solution given to us […]
history politics
“A people losing sight of origins are dead. A people deaf to purposes are lost” (Ayi Kwei Armah in Two Thousand Seasons, 1973, p xiii. My italics) “How indeed would a living understanding come to those, who have fled knowledge of the source?” (Ayi Kwei […]
history politics
“In our land the law of the nation reigns supreme.” (Mazisi Kunene) Francis Cress Welsing argues that “if you don’t understand white supremacy, everything else that you think you know, will only confuse you”. In implicit agreement with this fundamental argument, Wade Nobles further […]
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“There is a task which the Dutch-Afrikaner has in common with his English-Afrikaner compatriots as a bearer of white civilization, but there is also the special task which rests upon him in his own area, namely Dutch-Afrikaner culture…” (Die Burger as quoted in T. Dunbar […]
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