It is shocking how Black bodies are just available towards violence of any kind historically hitherto. From Mbuya Nehanda to Andries Tatane, the decapitated head of King Hintsa to the 12 500 demands of Mambush to Collins Khosa and Mthokizisi Ntumba, shade, class or tribe is no determining factor as long as you wear the black gown you are available to state violence.

The fight against what is called 'academic' and 'financial' exclusions and the call for free-decolonised education, have their historical basis in the project of European imperialism,” writes Veli Mbele.

I see you, Taiwa, passing through such darkness and never coming back. Such great pieces of music inaugurate your death.” writes Sinethemba Sankara Bizela

South African Police Services kill more Black people on average than the United States of America, claiming hundreds of lives each year. We are dying here. Bakae batswadi? Se reng sechaba?

On Wednesday the 17th of March 2021, artists will gather at the exact location where Mr Mthokozisi took his last breath to mark a week of mourning with the purpose of holding space for collective grief.

Tswalo, conceived and birthed by the Theatre Duo (Mahlatsi Mokgonyana and Billy Langa), is in its fifth year of life – a feat seldom achieved by contemporary South African plays. Plays usually do not last longer than their initial runs due to funding, resources, motivation and variety of other reasons.

"When Wits black students were fighting for the doors of learning to be open as the Freedom Charter promises, police responded with violence. Those are the "black crowd control" techniques they know. Nothing else"

These are the ways in which we survive these so-called ‘coffins in motion' that take us home and back. Taxi etiquette is the name we give the do's and don'ts of communal travel, reserved for the poorest members of the republic,” writes Tshepiso Mabula ka Ndongeni.