As the Black Child we have been told who our Hero/Heroine we ought to know who our true struggle lib
"The Group Areas Act of 1950, which allowed the government to ‘proclaim’ residential and business areas in towns and cities for designated race groups (including Indians and coloureds), was also based on prior segregationist legislation. The ‘Group’ was extensively used to remove communities and individuals who found themselves living in the ‘wrong’ place, most notoriously in the racially mixed and politically vibrant areas of District Six (Cape Town) and Sophiatown (Johannesburg)."
"From the point of view of development theory ... the state investment
corporations are the mechanism whereby the state diverts 'public money'
in order to create or buttress the weak bourgeois class needed by metro
politan capital to gain the political allegiance of the working class and the
peasants via a 'nationalist' ethos"
One Azania
One Nation
The invention of print, however, made iteasier
to manipulate public opinion, and the film and the radio carried the process
further ,
The possibility of enforcing not only complete obedience to the will of the State,
but complete uniformity of opinion on all subjects, now existed.
"In order to achieve real action you must yourself be a living part of Africa and of her thought;
you must be an element of that popular energy which is entirely called forth for the freeing,
the progress and the happiness of Africa."
Bantu Biko
"All slaves aspire to be free.
Only combat can make one free
Together, let us organize and bar the way to exploitation.
Together, let us organize you from over there and us from over here against the temples of money. No alter, no belief, no holy book, neither the Bible not the Koran nor the others, have ever been able to reconcile rich and poor, exploiter and exploited."
"He who does not feed you can demand nothing of you "
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The USA can not act as a custodian for international law or Human rights when the USA has been invading countries since the beginning of time and suddenly all over a Sunday countries are condemning the Russian government, each and every government must handle its own internal affairs , but the USA cannot act rightous.
"It is important that every day each of you remember one thing. While we are here discussing, while we are here talking to each other as Africans, there are spies who are here in order to make a report tomorrow morning. We say to them that they don't need to bring secret microphones because even if television cameras here we would be repeating the exact same thing."
Sankara Speaks the Burkina Revolution
"As revolutionaries, as soon as we begin to consider ourselves revolutionaries, we must know that the world we live in is not revolutionary. We have to live with realities that are not always to our liking. We have to be ready to live with governments that are not making a revolution at all, or perhaps that even attack our revolution. That is a bid responsibility for revolutionaries ."
Thomas Sankara
Kgalabi Masemola
The Islander
Azanian
Extract from Thomas Sankara Speaks
The enemies of the people inside the country are those who have taken advantage to their social position, of their bureaucratic position, to enrich themselves illicitly.
Who are these enemies of the people? The politicians who travel throughout the countryside only at election time, Politicians convinced that only they can make the Country work.
The enemies of the people are also that section of the bourgeoisie that enriches itself dishonestly through fraud and bribery, through the corruption of State Officials.
In this way, through maneuvers, through graft and through forged documents, they find themselves corporate shareholders, they find themselves financing some companies, they find themselves seeking approval for this or that company. They claim they are serving the People. These are the enemies of the people. They must be exposed. They must be combated.
"I come here to bring you fraternal greetings from a country, whose children , women and men refuse to die from ignorance, hunger and thirst any longer, I make no claim to lay out any doctrines, I am neither a messiah nor a prophet. I possess no truths. My only aspiration is to speak on behalf of my people, to speak on behalf of the great disinherited people of the world, Those who belong to the world so ironically christened the Third World. and to state, though I may not succeed in making them understood, the reasons for our revolt"
Thomas Sankara Speaks the Burkina Faso Revolution
"The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon
which enables it to strike and destroy its victim"
"Discrimination against woman by man
is a flagrant act of oppression without justification for woman
eats and drinks as man eats and drinks; woman loves and hates
as man loves and hates; woman thinks, learns and comprehends as man thinks, learns and comprehends"
Muammar al-Qaddafi
"Whoever possesses the house in which you dwell, the vehicle
in which you ride or the income on which you live, possesses
your freedom, or part of it. Freedom is indivisible. For people to
be happy, they must be free, and to be free, they must possess
the possibility of satisfying their own needs."
Muammar al-Qaddafi
Muammar al-Qaddafi
"The freedom of a human being is lacking if his or her needs are
controlled by others, for need may lead to the enslavement of
one person by another. Furthermore, exploitation is caused by
need. Need is an intrinsic problem and conflict is initiated by
the control of one’s needs by another."
The Spirit of Nzinga lies within each and everyone , awaken the Nzinga spirit ❤️
Queen Nzinga of Ndongo (Angola) was a powerful monarch who successfully kept the Portuguese out of her land for 35 years. In order to fight off Portugal, (who wanted to conquer the area to further the slave trade) Nzinga conquered neighboring kingdoms to expand her territory . Nzinga led her warriors in battle until her sixties and defied numerous assassination attempts to die peacefully in her sleep at 81 in 1663. Nzinga impact was so strong that she prevented the Portuguese from reaching deep into Southwest Africa until her death. Angola would finally be free of Portuguese control centuries later in 1975
"The new African shall not be deceived. The new African refuses to take advice from anyone who has not felt with him, and suffered with him. We have suffered for three hundred years therefore we feel that the time has come when only those who have suffered with us can interpret our feelings and our spirit. It takes the slave to interpret the feelings of the slave, it takes the unfortunate man to interpret the spirit of his unfortunate brother; and so it takes the ; suffering Negro to interpret the spirit of his comrade."
Marcus Garvey
Between 1990 and 1994 was arguably the moment in which the militarized state was at its nastiest.
The PAC established itself in Basutoland in 1962, birthplace of Potlako Leballo, its acting president. A small mountain kingdom entirely encircled by South Africa, the country’s existence as an independent nation (it became Lesotho in 1966) was testimony both to African resistance to colonial conquest.
"God’s divine will and the desire of every nation to realize its own cultural destiny".
"On 21 March, police fired more than 1,000 rounds of ammunition at a crowd in the black township of Sharpeville which had gathered round a low wire fence at the local police station to protest against the pass laws. Sixty-nine people were killed, many of whom were shot while running away, and approximately 180 casualties were recorded."
Sharpeville Massacre
"The ANC also had to decide whether its 1949 Programme of Action should remain within the law and honour Gandhian traditions of passive resistance, or whether more confrontationary tactics should be adopted. A clear decision on this issue could not be reached: in the 1940s and 1950s ANC presidents Xuma and Luthuli counselled caution, fearing a backlash from the government, whereas the increasingly influential Youth League favoured militancy and began to consider the need for direct revolutionary action."
"We cannot turn the clock back nor can we undo the harm caused, but we have the power to determine the future and to ensure that what happened never happens again"
President Paul Kagame
"Africa’s story has been written by others; we need to own our problems and solutions and write our story."
Jorge Rebelo
Come, brother and tell me your life
come show me the marks of revolt
which the enemy left on your body
come say to me 'Here
my hands have been crushed
because they defended
the land which they own
'Here my body was tortured
because it refused to bend
to invaders
'Here mouth was wounded
because it dared to sing
my people's freedom
"Always seek to help your African brother. Never allow him to fall, because as low down as he goes, he may ultimately pull you down with him. As high up as you can send him, he might ultimately pull you up with him. Let us then push everyone of the race up and not down."
Marcus Garvey ✊🏿
"Humankind does not submit passively to the power of nature. It takes control over this power. This process is not an internal or subjective one. It takes place objectively in practice, once women cease to be viewed as mere sexual beings, once we look beyond their biological functions and become conscious of their weight as an active social force. What's more, woman's consciousness of herself is not only a product of her sexuality. It reflects her position as determined by the economic structure of society, which in turn expresses the level reached by humankind in technological development and the relations between classes.
The importance of dialectical materialism lies in going beyond the inherent limits of biology, rejecting simplistic theories about our being slaves to the nature of our species, and, instead, placing facts in their social and economic context.”
Thomas Sankara
"The white man is a great propagandist. He fully and completely realizes the value of propaganda. Therefore, you must organize your propaganda to undo the propaganda of other people; if their propaganda affects your interest. The bible is religious propaganda, the school book is literary propaganda. The novels and books you read are also literary propaganda, all calculated to bring about certain results beneficial to the propagandist".
"The press, cinema, pulpit, schoolroom are all propaganda agencies for one thing or the other. The pulpit carries religious propaganda, the schoolroom carries educational propaganda, the press carries out written propaganda, the platform carries on oral propaganda, the cinema carries out demonstrative propaganda. These methods have been devised by the white man to spread his ideas universally among men. That is why he is able, in a major sense, to control the minds of the people of the world."
The Struggle
By Charles Kabuto Kabuye
We live in each other's pockets,
Envying our neighbors cooking pots,
While we leave our toes in our shoes
To be gnawed at by little ticklish bugs
Of laziness, drug- addiction and drunkness
In beer bars we struggle to impress
While others work to suppress us,
Treating us like little flies and fleas
Which produce noises only to be ignored.
..
Who shall console the veiled women
who buries her head in her wet hands
who weeps at the folly of weeping
tears that wont dissolve the sour truth
that in a deal between God and man
God always take a better bargain
Belonging
G. Adali-Mortty
You may excel
In knowledge of their tongue
And universal ties may bind you close to them
But what they say, and how they feel
The subtler details of their meaning
Thinking, feeling, reaching
These are closed to you and me for evermore
As are , indeed , the interleaves of speech
Our speech which fall on them
No more than were they dead leaves
In dust-dry harmattan
Although for years they've lived
And counted all there is to count
In our midst!
"There's no hope for advancement of Africans in their workplaces because an African will not work under another African.
An African has not developed to a point that one would be willing to take orders from another of his own race.
One is afraid that the other will prosper more than he does and would be recognized accordingly."
Mangaliso Sobukwe❤️
Leader of the PAC
Anton Fransch could best be described as a mystery. He was a sweet, kind and gentle boy who loved life and was deeply loved by everyone who knew him. He was also a hardened guerrilla soldier who sacrificed his life at the age of 20, by single-handedly taking on a small army of apartheid soldiers.
Anton’s story begins in the Cape Flats suburb of Bonteheuwel, where he was born and raised.
Men like Anton never die. They become a part of who we are, where we are headed, and the choices we make in life. Their courageous spirit guides us, makes us a little bit braver and makes us value not only our own lives but the lives of others as well. And at times, when we feel powerless and unable to change our circumstances, he is the voice in our heads that makes us straighten our backs and look fear right in the eyes, the voice that whispers, “Come and get me if you can.”
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