The Pitfalls of Broadcasting Looting

Tshiamo Malatji Culture 2021-07-13 10:06:24

Currently, the dominant narrative of the protests unfolding in Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal is on the theft of items from businesses, especially large malls and shopping centres. Social media is awash of mask-clad people carrying television sets, maize meal, shoes and other consumer items—even medicines and sex toys (gasp!). No item carried by protesters (who are called looters) escapes the gaze of the reporter looking for an easy fix. The narrative has been set. The national consciousness is focused. The truth is lost in the horrors of burned buildings and raided storefronts.

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America Needs A Coming To

Tshiamo Malatji Television 2021-03-09 14:26:45

Coming 2 America is loudly proclaiming that Africa is fake, that our customs are ridiculous and that by going through a process of becoming American we attain progress, identity and peace. It portrays Africa as fictional as Zamunda, as falsely conscious as its King Akeem and as hopelessly in need of saving as its princesses,” writes Tshiamo Malatji

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Long Read: Olúwolé’s African Metaphysics

Tshiamo Malatji Culture 2021-03-05 05:40:23

Sophie Olúwolé explains and defends classical Yorùbá philosophy, offers her view on an African metaphysics and resolves the African contribution to humanism, writes Tshiamo Malatji.

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The Silent Beasts of Hunger: The Food Series Episode 4 Review

Tshiamo Malatji Television 2021-02-18 07:53:08

Zimbabwean residents, Dorcas Pavari and Sara Mwareni, are interviewed on the effects of the lockdown on access to food. They spend R20 each day on food for a family of four, which the documentary reveals is only 20% of the amount needed to meet the Basic Nutritional Food Index.

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How Senegalese Farmers Become Landless: The Feast/Tong-Tong Review

Tshiamo Malatji Television 2021-02-08 09:26:48

This land is sold to privileged foreign owners who make revenue from its use. Locals who try to compete struggle because they lack access to similar equipment as large corporations. Agriculture does more for these companies than for people. Animals that trespass are seized, people fined and fees for getting their animals back. "How can you live side by side in peace?"

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Embracing Blackness Means Forgetting Gandhi

Tshiamo Malatji Culture 2021-02-04 07:49:44

According to South African historians (As reported by BBC), Ashwin Desai and Goolam Vahed, Gandhi believed in separating the Indian and African struggle. They document him writing to the government in Natal in 1893, "general belief seems to prevail in the Colony that the Indians are a little better, if at all, than savages or the Natives of Africa".

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Long Read: Mbembe's Postcolony

Tshiamo Malatji Culture 2021-02-04 07:49:44

Because Africans are considered objects, they are forced into labour to become producers of wealth for the colonisers. (pg 28) Being an animal meant the colonised lived for the uses and pleasures of the colonisers. This also created a relationship of domestication, where the coloniser perceived the colonised as something to be groomed and given “affection”.

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Torch of Patrice Lumumba

Tshiamo Malatji Black Salutations 2021-02-04 07:49:44

In murderous treachery, the West conspired to have him killed and thus ensure the country and continent would return once again to an affair of deprivation. We must remember Lumumba and carry his torch of liberation, else we allow the West a horrifying victory.

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