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While blackness, as an imposed reality, that creates a certain field around the subject, has come to be acknowledged as such, little has been done to problematise intersubjective relations between black people.
Poet Makhafula Vilakazi is tired of living in the shadow of Shakespearean poetry. Born Matodzi Ramashia in Chiawelo, Soweto, Makhafula has created a brand of poetry that sees him delivering his rap inspired lyrics in township slang.”
Nomaza was the kind of woman every wife on the street resented. Her honey skin reminded other women that their dark skin would never make men stop mid-sentence when they passed.
As a matter of fact, it was Khaya’s political activity that landed Biko in trouble when the two were arrested at school and detained. I recall how Bra Bisto, as Khaya was known, related to us as AZASCO members in 1995 how happy he was when Biko was arrested. This was because Biko was indifferent to political activity until that arrest.
If one statement should give you an idea about what the stay-woke type generation is all about, it is that: sleep must be resisted by any means!
“Philani and his associates continue to suffer. The gospel of transformation never brings salvation to them. They are blamed for their misery… and whites without matric play golf all day yet live beyond the means of every other race,” writes Molaodi Wa Sekake
“Michelle Nkamankeng initially showed interest in reading, at the tender age of four. Then from five years on, she progressed from an avid reader to an avid writer,” writes Dr Tshepo Mvulane Moloi
Now, I never got the full ‘Blue Movie’ experience, however, I do remember a day when my brother and his friends kicked me out of our small bachelor flat to use the VCR machine to watch a porno. Out of nowhere, my grandmother rocked up to visit my mom and lo and behold she found a group of pubescent boys in their school uniform gaping at a sex scene on the TV.
We come into this earth with the single certainty of death yet unsure of the exact date and cause. When the day finally arrives, despite the certainty, those left behind are overcome with sadness, grief and a myriad of complicated feelings. The passing of Phumlani Pikoli has cast a dark shadow over the artistic community.
Lushaba's crime? To stretch political science beyond acceptable limits set by the Empire. He blasted off the lid that protects the dominant canon in the political science discipline as we know it. By so doing he gives political science an existentially responsive content and outlook when it comes to the lives that it had been made to overlook and violate. And so, yes, his pedagogical approach offends white epistemic sensibilities. Lushaba's argument, as I understand it, is very simple and logical.
Wom{b}_anifesto forms part of a research project aimed at documenting the journey of creative women in South Africa. The output will be a non-fiction book featuring interviews and stories, their challenges and what the future holds. Content curator Vuyolwethu Reoagile (Graphoflux) will write, curate the content, and produce the anthology. Ilze Wessels (OTYNet) will curate the physical and virtual exhibition.
“Brother Mmusi must be held accountable for his role in bolstering white power and imperialism... In his role as DA leader, Brother Mmusi proudly and knowingly strengthened the muscle of white power, capitalism, neoliberalism and imperialism,” writes Veli Mbele.
