The Economics of Language: Black Languages Reduced to Dialects

Siyabonga Hadebe Culture 2020-08-17 02:50:00

Despite the fact that indigenous languages were declared official languages in the ‘new’ South Africa, they have so far failed to match the growth of Afrikaans usage since 1948. With the ‘Rainbow Nation’ idea suppressing African nationalism, South Africa is left with no language that can be considered as truly national.

Read More

AfricaRise in Jozi

Special Correspondent Culture 2020-08-13 06:02:14

AfricaRise is not just four walls and a door. It is a lifestyle, committed to the values of authenticity, innovation and quality without compromise. We are Africans and we have a collective duty to rise.

Read More

Tswalo

Pulane Mafatshe Culture 2020-08-13 03:54:48

The idea of dying and returning as stars haunts me, as I go through the pages of Billy Langa’s Tswalo. A one-hander comprising of a body of poems written very eloquently, revealing secrets and clues about who we were; who we are; where we come from; and who we are to become.

Read More

Reflections on a Feminist Heritage

Masello Motana Culture 2020-08-10 10:29:47

The world she created around herself was like the one she came from, one that affirmed womanhood and questioned societal dismissal of the feminine at every turn. She sustained that world with how she lives her life, even the women she surrounds herself with that I regard as aunts

Read More

Book Review: If You Keep Digging

Perfect Hlongwane Culture 2020-08-08 03:33:33

There are so many existential crises that Keletso’s If You Keep Digging spark within me, but again, these are not of the kind one puts in a review that one wishes to be taken seriously. For instance, how dare a first-time author write with such authority? With such assurance? Who the hell writes a debut book without going out of their way to impress the reader; relying solely on a storytelling that comes so naturally that it has arrived on the scene almost fully formed? And so on, and so I will not say these things

Read More

Mfecane Never Happened

Siyabonga Hadebe Culture 2020-08-07 06:27:15

In the mainstream studies there is an argument that no slaves were harvested from South Africa. This is from European tendencies of treating South Africa as if it were separate from the rest of the continent. In his article ‘Slavery, social incorporation and surplus extraction; the nature of free and unfree labour in South-East Africa’ (1981), the late historian Patrick Harries of the University of Basel, Switzerland, observed that, “it is commonly believed that in south- east Africa the Nguni had a natural aversion to both export and domestic forms of slavery”

Read More

Seeking for African Contribution(s) from our South African Syllabus

Dr. Tshepo Mvulane Moloi Culture 2020-08-05 08:07:07

The latter is undertaken, to hopefully record and reflect on the epistimicide I experienced, in my scholarly trajectory, as a ‘Black’ South African.

Read More

The Untold Story of Amabhaca

Siyabonga Hadebe Culture 2020-08-03 00:55:24

"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 refugees. They were the refugees from the Mfecane wars that had uprooted the nation from its original home in what is now KwaZulu-Natal.

Read More