John Knox Bokwe

Refiloe Rantsieng Black Salutations 2022-03-17 05:30:24

John Knox Bokwe’s hymn A Plea for Africa still resonates in 2022 as the world finds itself in the midst of war, ever-present racism and the never-ending trauma South Africans face daily due to rising fuel prices, loadshedding and overwhelming mortality rates caused by ailments such as depression and other causes.

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Biko As An Africana Philosopher & Black Consciousness As An Existential Phenomenological Approach To The Past, Present & Future of The Azanian People

Mphutlane wa Bofelo Black Salutations 2021-10-09 06:35:17

Black Consciousness advocates and fight for the right of Black people to exist in the world as a complete, and free human beings, and for the world in which racialised identities are not the measure of people’s humanity

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Remembering Baba Muntu Myeza

Veli Mbele Black Salutations 2021-07-02 08:09:33

One of the greatest threats to any revolutionary project is the failure of those who claim to be involved in revolution, to deliberately remember and stay engaged in revolutionary activism.

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The Last Testament of Sabelo Gqwetha Phama

Sabelo Phama Black Salutations 2021-02-10 15:58:37

Take my garment Comrades, / That is all I can give you, for... / That is all I have / The blood stains, / Turn into banners / Bullets and bombs / And hit them hard, here, there,

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Torch of Patrice Lumumba

Tshiamo Malatji Black Salutations 2021-01-17 07:09:09

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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Amilcar Lopes Da Costa Cabral

Veli Mbele Black Salutations 2020-09-22 05:56:06

“Africa and the world are yet to recover from Sankara’s assassination. Just as we have yet to recover from the loss of Patrice Lumumba, Kwame Nkrumah, Eduardo Mondlane, Amílcar Cabral, Steve Biko, Samora Machel, and most recently John Garang, to name only a few. While malevolent forces have not used the same methods to eliminate each of these great Pan-Africanists, they have been guided by the same motive: to keep Africa in chains.” — Antonio de Figueiredo, February 2008.

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Nathaniel Julies Through Biko’s Eyes – A Memorial Reflection

Veli Mbele Black Salutations 2020-09-08 06:11:47

There is something deeply disturbing about being Black in the world we live in - and that is the realisation of how fragile our very existence is.The realisation that, regardless of your social status, the very fact, nature or duration of your existence is not something that you have control over as a Black person.

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Es’kia Mphahlele’s Homage to Mama Zondeni Veronica Sobukwe

Dr. Tshepo Mvulane Moloi Black Salutations 2020-08-19 06:04:59

As part of women’s month commemorations, it is fitting to remind ourselves as a contemporary South African public, about the poem penned by the ‘Prophet of Marabastad’ Es’kia Mphahlele, entitled Tribute to Zodwa Veronica, a Great Woman.

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