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The Untold Story of Amabhaca
"The last king of the AmaBhaca people was Inkosi Madzikane ka Zulu. He died in the 19th century in what is now Mount Frere, next to the Drakensberg mountain range. The name "amabhaca" means...
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The Opening Week of 2022
The latter point is vital because the ANC’s January 8th statement of 2022, emphasized their “safeguarding of democratic gains”. The ANC government’s poor service delivery and malfe...
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From Your Lips To My Soul: A Soulful Instrumental Connection
I think it is fair to assume that we have all encountered music that has quite literally sent shivers down our spines.
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The Silent Cry of Zandile Mafe
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...
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Bitter Fruit – The Playlist
Two years ago, to the day, I came to both the end and the beginning. The end of being ithwasana, and the beginning of being isangoma. A lot has changed; a lot has remained the same. One of my gobelas once said to me, ‘Go...
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New Radicals for A Post-Tutu Society (A minor manifesto)
The post-Tutu society is a pointer towards a new Black sociality. In this sociality lies a playful love for Truth. We mean the truth that the courageous Archbishop Emeritus Tutu co...
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Afrofuturism & Reality in Nuotama Bodomo’s Black African Cinema
The dangers of this kind of futurism is the placation of real histories in favour of pleasant depictions of Blackness. This risk is amplified by collective ignorance of the histories that futurist reinterpretations are b...
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