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Veli Mbele

Veli Mbele is an Afrocentric essayist and secretary of the Black Power Front.

Articles written by Veli Mbele

REVIEW: Vuka Machel – A Blacks Only Conversation

Veli Mbele Black Salutations 2021-02-04 07:49:44

It is for this and other reasons that, I regard Vuka Machel as a rare and beautiful moment of Black resistance. A moment of resistance at a time when many of us Black people have chosen the posture of collaboration - as opposed to resistance against the multifaceted system of white supremacy/capitalism/neoliberalism/violence against Black women/ and anti-blackness in general.

We Blacks Are Afraid Of Whites

Veli Mbele Culture 2021-02-04 07:49:44

When I say we Blacks are afraid of whites I don't necessarily mean an individual Black person is afraid to engage in a physical confrontation with a white person. Neither do I refer to our individual anxieties about colliding with a gang of drunk-young-white Batista-like rugby players, on a Saturday night, who might moer the last bit of Blackness out of you.

Black People As The Only Force of Change In The Settler-Colony

Veli Mbele Culture 2021-02-04 07:49:44

Myeza's critique was published on 4 May, 1987 by the Sowetan newspaper, under the heading 'Force White Voters Ignore'. As I understand it, his critique sought not only to expose the uselessness of this election to Black people, but also the dangerously deceptive role of white liberal organisations in 'mainstream' South AfriKKKan politics.

BLF Deregistered: What Now, Blacks?

Veli Mbele Culture 2021-02-04 07:49:44

On numerous occasions some of us have made a call for pan Afrikanist/Black consciousness/Afrocentric movements to unshackle themselves from egocentric politics and what Mwalimu Mphutlane wa Bofelo aptly refers to as 'party nationalism. And that they should find each other and put a sincere effort into developing something that can be referred to as a Black radical agenda.

Have We Entered A New Epoch In Human History?

Veli Mbele Culture 2021-02-04 07:49:44

Many of these rebellions are youth driven. There are calls for governments to step down. In reaction, in some countries the state has been very brutal (killing and kidnapping people). This happens even in countries where the governing parties have an anti-colonial or anti-imperialist credentials.

Sometimes Blacks Are the Problem

Veli Mbele Culture 2021-02-04 07:49:44

It is us Black people who engage in all this msunery. Not Solidarity or AfriForum! That's how heartless we are. Then we want to turn around and call Solidarity racist for using their membership subscriptions and other funding, to build 'Afrikaans' educational institutions? WTF?

Mugabe Belongs To Us

Veli Mbele Black Salutations 2021-02-04 07:49:44

uBab'Mugabe didn't just fight British settler-colonialism in Zimbabwe and white racism, but he also supported (not just theoretically), the Liberation Movement (which the DA was not part of) in Southern Afrika, by among others, providing protection, accommodation, training and passage to the leaders of the BCM, PAC and ANC and their armed wings (Azanla, Apla and MK).

“Xenophobia” & The Poverty of the Afrikan Majority

Veli Mbele Culture 2021-02-04 07:49:44

The incessant eruptions we see in the concentration camps have little to do with xenophobia or influx control. These eruptions are a direct result of our consistent failure (over the past 25 years) to radically address the man-made economic powerlessness of the Afrikan majority.