MAGAZINE
It is not easy living in a developing (third world) country, particularly for someone like me — in a country with one of the highest rates of inequality, poverty, and violence in the world; and with minimal guarantee of financial stability.
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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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What is apparent is that there could be nervousness about many of the agreements made during Codesa negotiations. The storm which swept South Africa earlier in the year over FW de Klerk’s comments about apartheid showed that the ‘sunset clauses’, especially those relating to the protection of private property rights, have lived beyond their sell-by-date. These matters cover land, mines, banks, and monopoly industries, that is at least according to former Cosatu economist Prof. Chris Malikane. This is the ‘never-centre’ of what the South African economy is all about.
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So, on this night I let her in my bed and went to work, prying gently, loosening joints, stretching fingers, to find in her palm, her heart wrapped in a bible verse. John 4, the perfect psalm for the woman who has come to understand the secret pain of the Samaritan woman.
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Since we agree that anti-blackness subsumes the entire Black race without taking cognisance of, inter alia, gender and class, how does Black feminism still privilege the discourse and gestures predicated on gender consciousness and not on Black consciousness?
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“We believe that in (occupied Azania) South Africa, the invasive force and the invaded group live in unhealthy tension — and as such are a ticking time bomb ready to explode.
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The Alliance also notes that the demon of racism remains a blight on the soul of our nation, reflecting itself in institutionalised racism in apartheid geography, in the economy and social spheres.”
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