Afrikan Liberation Day: A Moment for Honest Reflection & Re-Dedication to Revolutionary Practice

Veli Mbele Culture 2022-05-26 15:32:52

One of the lingering legacies of colonial invasion in Afrika is the tragedy where, even in remembering what our invaders did to us, we find ourselves remembering in ways that are prescribed by our invaders.

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Black People not Constitution Under Threat

Veli Mbele Culture 2021-07-15 06:23:55

For those Black people who were oblivious to the reality of chronic and endemic Black inequality in South AfriKKKa, the advent of the Coronavirus and the lockdowns provided us with a crystallisation of this historically evolved and structural problem.

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Remembering Baba Muntu Myeza

Veli Mbele Black Salutations 2021-07-02 06:09:33

One of the greatest threats to any revolutionary project is the failure of those who claim to be involved in revolution, to deliberately remember and stay engaged in revolutionary activism.

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Black Genocide As The Foundation of Today’s White Wealth & Power

Veli Mbele Culture 2021-05-08 07:19:05

“The much celebrated and romanticised European economic renaissance was fueled through the captured slave labour of mainly Afrikans and the indigenous people of Latin America (this is probably the most dishonest aspect of European history).

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Mmusi Maimane: Victim or Accomplice of White Supremacy?

Veli Mbele Culture 2021-04-12 04:35:39

“Brother Mmusi must be held accountable for his role in bolstering white power and imperialism... In his role as DA leader, Brother Mmusi proudly and knowingly strengthened the muscle of white power, capitalism, neoliberalism and imperialism,” writes Veli Mbele.

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When A Black Body Publicly Instructs A White Body To ‘Shut Up”

Veli Mbele Culture 2021-03-30 04:50:22

In my view, therefore, there is a sense in which Bab'uMpofu's instruction to the other body provides us with a unique opportunity to honestly interrogate our various shut up contexts as Black bodies. I am not making a legal or ethical case, but an existential one.

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The Historical & Political Basis of Today’s Student Rebellions

Veli Mbele Culture 2021-03-18 07:37:12

The fight against what is called 'academic' and 'financial' exclusions and the call for free-decolonised education, have their historical basis in the project of European imperialism,” writes Veli Mbele.

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Joe Biden Is Merely an Older Version of Bill Clinton

Veli Mbele Culture 2021-02-04 07:49:44

As I was watching the celebratory dances of Black people in some parts of the United States of AmeriKKKa, when it was announced that Joe Biden was now their 46th president, my mind went back to the same celebratory scenes when Barrack Obama was elected US president and the hype around him being the first Black president of the USA.

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