“When the colonised intellectual writing for his people uses history, he must do so with the intention of opening up the future.” Dr Thokozani Mhlambi opened the conversation by quoting these immortal words by Frantz Fanon. This was at a gathering of cultural innovators that was held at the KZNSA Gallery in Durban, South Africa …
“South Africans wanted freedom and all they got was democracy,” we are told by Sammy Mgijima. A visionary thinker on African post-liberation economics, Sammy is a qualified economist, who works at Old Mutual Corporate. “For the true fruits of freedom to be realized, the creation of a national identity, a common understanding of what it …
Whites are the Biggest Winners in the South African Economy Read More »
I’ve had access to a university education which my ancestors never had. I did not experience Bantu Education like my fathers and mothers. I live in places that were barred from me in apartheid. I can choose whatever job, profession, career I wish to go to. I can even choose to be an entrepreneur. NO …
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNuQbJst4Lk] God has specially endowed us with a tremendous gift of worship. The dominance of African descendants in the entertainment industry bears testimony. Africans understood the importance of adoration through song & movement since ancient times. That they did not have access to the bible did not hinder the light of the gospel from penetrating …
Amazing Grace on the black notes of the Piano: slavery & the redemption imagination Read More »
“Aspiration” Bronze Sculpture BY THOKOZANI N. MHLAMBI The African middle-class in South Africa is mired into a flawed environment of meaningless accumulation, which renders them mute in proclaiming the need for a restoration. But their story in striving for definition and liberty in a complex world does not begin here. Already in the early 20th …
The Unfulfilled Aspirations of African middle-class in 1930s Read More »