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Mandela Writes: January 2007
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Friday, January 19, 2007. Namibian Political History - Part 2- B.F. Bankie. Alexander ( Alexander 1998) describes the Namibian war of anti-colonial resistance of 1904-7, otherwise known as the Nama-Herero uprising, as the ‘central event’ in the recent history of Namibia. This war witnessed the inability of the Ovaherero and the Nama to establish, at that point in time, common cause to fight a common invading enemy, Germany. Some reflection on the ethnic mix of what came to be governed as an ethnically di...
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Mandela Writes: May 2007
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Monday, May 14, 2007. Namibian political History :Part 3 By B.F Bankie. 8230;Whites claim they support the new order, but they don’t and stay away in droves from state functions on national days. An uneasy social compact prevails.White economic hegemony is maintained with the tacit approval of international finance capital, which finances the Namibian system. After 1918, with the ending of the First World War South West Africa /. Under a C Mandate of the League of Nations on behalf of. With the arrival o...
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Mandela Writes: August 2007
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Tuesday, August 07, 2007. Black colonialist - Chinweizu. Black colonialists: the root of the trouble with Nigeria. Chinweizu answering questions from Paul Odili, Lagos, 3SEP06. An Achebe Foundation Interview [edited transcript]. You have expressed the view that the process of liberation of Nigeria from colonial rule was not far reaching enough. May we know why you think this is so? And that it is not over at the moment when the flag is hoisted and the national anthem is played.” . . . Lacking a detailed ...
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Mandela Writes: June 2006
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Thursday, June 15, 2006. A PAN AFRICAN PERSPECTIVE. Joseph Zobels’s 1955 stark portrayal in La Rue des cases-negre of rural Martinique, although fictional gives an accurate account of the life and times of the life of many blacks in Martinique. So powerful was this vivid portrayal that the book was banned for many years in mainland France. It described the absurd contrast in the lives of white minority Beke’s and the impoverished existence of the majority black. Consider further that even in the United S...
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In Capital’s Shadow | laaitie
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In Capital’s Shadow. It was June 2000. As the last rays of sun kissed us goodbye and the night lights of New York city took their places, my sister and I quickly found seats as part of an audience in the shadow of the World Trade Centre. We were here to listen to Bra Hugh – Masekela. It was one of the city’s legendary free summer concerts – out in the open night air, in a space cleared right in the heart of capital. It was a great concert – thanks to Visa! A performance that’s down in my books as o...
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Sushi, Sun And Struggle By The Sea | laaitie
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Sushi, Sun And Struggle By The Sea. For the first time in my life, last week, I found myself on the inside of a conference being protested – the Sanpad. Poverty conference in Durban. Invited as a speaker, I had anticipated little less than an academic menu seasoned lightly by some social movement voices. Judging from the programme and location of the conference (the R1000 a night Elangeni beachfront hotel), it seemed as though a number of compromises had already been made in its organising. The organiser...
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Discipline! Comrade Madlala-Routledge, Discipline! | laaitie
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Comrade Madlala-Routledge, Discipline! In all the hype about the Minister of Health’s alleged alcoholism that is dominating reports and discussions about the President’s sacking of Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge, an important issue seems to have been forgotten – party discipline. All three individuals are members of the Congress Alliance, in particular the ANC, with Madlala-Routledge also enjoying membership of the SACP. This has exposed differences within the Alliance with regard to the very understanding of...
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Mandela Writes: August 2006
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Sunday, August 20, 2006. Gender and African Youth Leadership. The year 2006 has been monumental for African young people, for the fist time in its history has the African union convened a platform for National Youth Councils and Equivalents Structures (NYCES’s) with the view to include them in the process of the drafting of a Pan African protocol, most significantly the adoption of the African Youth Charter by the Assembly of Heads of State. Youth development is the responsibility of governments. Afr...
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Mandela Writes: November 2006
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Saturday, November 25, 2006. Introducing Pan Africanism - Bankie Forster Bankie. Marcus Garvey and W.E.B Du Bois – Founding Fathers of the Pan African movement. I would argue that Pan Africanism is generally not well understood in. What is better understood in the region is. Black consciousness. Whereas black consciousness is. Race based African nationalism, a reaction to state sponsored racism. And The South West Africa Peoples Organization (SWAPO) and The. West African Students Union (SWANU) in. In 194...
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