South Africa’s Second Chance Extracts from Eddy Maloka, 2024 Book: “South Africa’s Second Chance” A crisis is a moment in history when the old can no longer hold, when something…
Remembering Florence Mophosho (1921 – 1985): Forty Years On (Obituary, “Florence Mophosho, 1921 – 1985”, Sechaba, November 1985) The South African national democratic revolution lost one of its most stout-hearted…
AUGUST 9: South African Women’s Day The history of South Africa is rich with examples of the determination of women to play their full part in the difficult struggle for…
ALFRED NZO: THE PEOPLE’S INITIATIVE (Extracts of a speech delivered by Alfred Nzo, Secretary General of the African National Congress to the International NGO Action Conference for Sanctions against South…
Victoria Mxenge Remembered: 40 Years On Amidst the endemic assassination of activists, she was not deterred. She mustered the courage to call the murders “dastardly acts of cowardice” and that…
Remembering John Garang: 20 Years On John Garang De Mabior died in a helicopter crash on 30 July 2005. Even when John Garang promoted the New Sudan Vision (NSV) over…
Cementing Ties Preparing for a Stronger Future (Excerpts of a Speech by President Netumbo Ndemupelila Nandi-Ndaitwah, President of SWAPO Party and of the Republic of Namibia) “Together, we will honour…
Amílcar Cabral: The Weapon of Theory (1966) Both in colonialism and in neo-colonialism the essential characteristic of imperialist domination remains the same: the negation of the historical process of the…
Frantz Fanon – Marxism and Anti-Imperialism in Africa (Extracts from Chapter 6: Conclusion, “The Wretched of the Earth”, 1961) When I search for Man in the technique and the style…
Frantz Fanon: Reciprocal Bases of National Culture and the Fight for Freedom (Extracts of a Speech by Frantz Fanon at the Congress of Black African Writers, 1959) A frequent mistake,…