HOW CULTURAL ARTS ADVANCED BLACK CONTEMPORARY CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE FIGHT AGAINST SETTLER-COLONIALISM IN SOUTH AFRICA
{A Talk by Mosibudi Mangena at the Soweto Theatre on 18/07/2025 to Honour Molefe Pheto}
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TRIBUTE TO NTATE DON NKADIMENG, A GALLANT FIGHTER FOR FREEDOM
TRIBUTE TO NTATE DON NKADIMENG, A GALLANT FIGHTER FOR FREEDOM Death is untimely, not because there is no time for it. It is untimely because it comes when we least expect it. It is untimely because it does not allow us an opportunity to…
RUNNING BLIND FOLDED BY DR MOSIBUDI MANGENA
A Cuban mathematics and science tutor who was part of a group I was working with in the Department of Education, was bemused by the tendency of South Africans to call big meetings to attend to issues that should be dealt with routinely and…
WE ARE AN AMORAL SOCIETY
Most of us do not do right things because we are afraid of the police. We do the right things because it is the right thing to do. If the majority of us were to behave properly only because we feared law enforcement agencies,…
ARMED STRUGGLE AND THE BLACK CONSCIOUSNESS MOVEMENT BY CDE NELVIS QEKEMA
On 12 April 1980, the Conference of the Black Consciousness Movement in London managed to bring together most of the disparate BC formations in exile. The Black Consciousness Movement of Azanian (BCMA) was born as an umbrella body that brought together the various BC…
NOBODY OWNS THE CITIZENS BY MOSIBUDI MANGENA
When the time to go back to Zimbabwe from Mozambique at the end of the Zimbabwean war of liberation arrived, the militant Edgar Tekere is said to have expressed his profound fear of governance. He was secretary-general of ZANU-PF that waged its armed struggle…
THE IDIOCY OF ETHNICITY BY MOSIBUDI MANGENA
“…Xhosas want their Transkei, the Zulus their Zululand etc. Coloured people harbour secret hopes of being classified as ‘brown Afrikaners’ and therefore meriting admittance into the white laager while Indian people might be given a vote to swell the buffer zone between whites and…
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