Barotela bo Darkie: The Culture of Peeing on Blacks in White Universities

Sinethemba Sankara Bizela Culture 2022-05-20 01:24:10

The Stellenbosch moment provides an image of a gun loaded with pee. A long liquid-like bullet fired on the laptop and study materials of a fellow student.

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The Silent Cry of Zandile Mafe

Sinethemba Sankara Bizela Culture 2022-01-17 07:24:03

Zandile’s silent cry at the altar means that a wretched body like him is guilty until proven innocent. His hopelessness represents many damned black bodies in South Africa who are persecuted for being poor.

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Ode to Moses Taiwa Molelekwa

Sinethemba Sankara Bizela Culture 2021-03-18 07:27:58

I see you, Taiwa, passing through such darkness and never coming back. Such great pieces of music inaugurate your death.” writes Sinethemba Sankara Bizela

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Black to Reality

Sinethemba Sankara Bizela Culture 2021-02-04 07:49:44

George Floyd. He cried, “mama!” as the white policeman, Derek Chauvin, pressed his knee against Floyd’s neck – and they say she died, two years ago to the day, that he himself is crying for his life to be spared. When his mother is not responding, George sighs his last breath, exiting the theatre of the living. I imagine Derek Chauvin saying, “Die, Nigga!”

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