Activating a Thought Leader In Me

i decided to write a poem today i decided to take my paper and pen and write a poem, to write what is in my mind and heart i decide to write a poem today in hopes that someone will read it and love it i decide to write a poem today i had something to get off my chest i decided to allow someone to enter my mind i decided to let someone to know me deeper i decided not to keep my heart and soul to my self i decided to allow someone into the deepest part of my thoughts i decide to write a poem today i decided i wanted to allow someone to know to know how i love God i decided not to be ashamed of my love for Jesus i decide to write a poem today i deiced to write a poem for Jesus i decided i had to much inside and i need to let it out i deiced that i can be myself today i decided to not be afraid of the world to allow negative comments to make me stronger i decided to allow the thick snow to be my blanket i decided to allow my fear to be my fuel i decided to write a poem t...

She is South Africa's Warrior Queen. - We cannot deny that she joined the peoples organization because of her husband, however she was not made by her husband, she was a single mother and became a mother of the liberation movement and the antion. She became a leader in her own account and she fought side by side with the rest of the comrades. " i deliberately exposed myself, to a lot of harassment, for his name to be remembered." This woman and many other female comrades, continue to be uncelebra ted and their legacy to be neglected. “I became a symbol of resistance. " That was why the past governemnt wanted to destroy her. The pressure to free the struggle prisoners, came from the unrest she was leading in the country, along with the comrades left on the ground. The liberation movement has kept very patriarchal face and I fear the lack of role playing in the ANCWL. # Amandla https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wq_axQthHrY

Whites have learnt the power of organised economy, where they structure their economic power in such a way that it stays within the circle of white minority rule. White privilege is one of the best preserved institutional systems. While Afrikans can organised themselves in protests and marches, there is a lack of education on the institutions they are protesting against. With no understanding of the enemy’s strategy or knowledge of the type of virus you are fighting, the symp toms can mislead the diagnosis. The best example of this is the recent incident of Qwabe who chose to leave a condition to the waitress should she qualify for a tip. Qwabe noted the symptom, which is the displacement of the Afrikans land. The power of the white man in the South African context was shown when the privileged group raised over R150k to show that they don’t need the Afrikan man’s money, because they own the land, the economy and the Afrikan. Unknowingly or knowingly the white South African ...

The issue of social change pertaining women can only transform when women themselves, come to the Awakening of their selves. The idea of transformation and policy can only work when women who are in strategic positions within the political, social and economic spheres are able to talk and stand up for themselves. At the moment in South Africa there seems to be number of women in strategic position within the public and government fields, but very few of them are making tang ible change in the advancement of women’s right in their constituency. We have political organization that have women’s league, who have not utilized their positions in the leagues to advance the general South African woman rights. As a woman is involved in youth politics and activism, it worries me when still I cannot find adequate writings and books on Afrikan woman, who were part of the movements to liberate South African, woman in Afrikan stories of liberation have no names, rather there are attributed as ‘women...

The  ANC  does not bring up the Apartheid only during election, the apartheid legacy is every where in South Africa. Zuma and the ANC has just become a great divergence for racist whites and privileged minority of South Africa. Firstly Zuma and the ANC are not powerful enough to put us (SA) in the financial mess we are in, for those who read and maybe have a bit of African and general political and econ omics background would Know, that the previous government left a huge debt in the hands of the incoming democratic government. which until today has not been cleared or lessened. The ANC government, has had to try a feed, clothe, house and try protect millions of black people, who where displaced and are in poverty for hundreds of years, at the same time protect those who coursed the problems ( whites). It is nonsense that these privilege whites have lied to thousands of Blacks of this beautiful land and using a puppet to lead our people to the fire. Zuma and the ANC leaders ar...

So students are calling for free education for ALL! hayi guys, i don't agree with the "all" part. How do you treat a black child form the rural areas, who has nothing to their name, the same way as a white student from Summerstand. Free Education is meant to redress and try equalise access to these institutions of higher learning for the poor majority and previously disadvantaged. Now rich and poor, in education must be equal? Free Education must be for those who can not afford it, why privilege those who are already privileged?  There are to many ideas and lack of cohesiveness amongst student leaders. There needs to be one voice, echoing in all their voices... I worry about this call for free education, by a divided student body, who seem to have divided ideas on how to achieve this free education. Each corner seems to be fighting to be the dominant leader in the movement (FMF). So as I watch these student leaders in the forefront and speaking to media, making sur...

Social change when it comes to gender issues can only be changed, when women themselves come to the Awakening of their selves. The idea of transformation and policy can only work when women who are in strategic positions within the political, social and economic spheres are able to talk and stand up for themselves. At the moment in South Africa there seems to be number of women in strategic position within the public and government fields, but very few of them are making tangible change in the advancement of women’s right in their constituency. We have political organization that have women’s league, who have not utilized their positions in the leagues to advance the general South African woman rights.   As a woman who  is involved in youth politics and activism, it worries me when still I cannot find adequate writings and books on Afrikan woman, who where part of the movements to liberate South African, woman in Afrikan stories of liberation have no names, rather there a...

Does my blackness offends you?  Because i am Black blessed with the most beautiful kinky hair i know. My hair can withstand all weathers and storms and still it stands with me.  Created for the continent that was displaces with me in it and which i was displaced from as a slave. See my hair tells of roots that are so hard to remove, only slavery or dehumanizing conditions of my mind,  soul and body can make me hate my own beauty.   When my beauty is seen as less and unreal, i te nd to look in despair kanti what did i do? It's ok, because your whiteness offends me, see i cannot beat around the bush, smile and weave as you pass by me ,  holding your nose in the air, because our society has allowed your skin to think its better than mine. Your whiteness offends me, because its your whiteness that has removed my blackness from my own sisters head,  to aspire for a whiteness that is seen as beautiful and majestic. Your whiteness offends me, becau...

Introduction. I want to focus on Modern gender policy development, making reference to the Women in Development (WID) projects and the Gender and Development projects within Tanzania and South Africa. Gender issues have always been part of Afrikan transformation and transitions, in the fight for Afrikan states to be liberated. There seemed to be a forgotten cry and plea for women’s rights and liberation. Afrikan states drove hegemonic and patriarchal liberation movements and failed to acknowledge women as critical role players in the struggle and fight for liberation of Afrikan states. Women have had to themselves fight for recognition in these new democracy’s and liberal states. While we can read about great Afrikan liberal and struggle heroes throughout the continent, the likes of Thomas Sankara Burkina Faso, we speak of Kwame Nkrumah, Patrice Lumumba, and Oliver Tambo amongst many others. Female who too played critical roles in these liberation movements and policy dr...

  October 2015   will be always be remembered as the month that students post 1994 made the biggest mark in South African (if not Afrikan) history. The eventful weeks of the student uprising began with a documentary from Stellenbosch University “Luister”, of Students who were calling out the university out on its racist language policies and the racism within the institution. This was followed by UCT students calling for the fall of the colonial statues of Cecil Rhodes on the university campus.   The statue represented the colonial rule and legacy, of black hurt and lived experience of the Afrikan person (#Rhodesmustfall). This would only be the launching pad of what was to follow. Students from all over the country became “woke” (awakened) to the reality of the African student and there position in the former apartheid universities. The announcement of the 2016 fee increment in universities around South Africa, was met with a response from the students of WITS ...

  The South African education system is not failing because the teachers are bad or that the students are slow. The problem is the curriculum. In a country that has a majority that is African, using the Western and colonial education system, which the majority of the students consuming it have no relation to, is problematic. The government of South Africa is still one that is colonized, therefore it is difficult for them to teach anything outside their colonial master’s ways. Looking at Africa’s best education system Zimbabwe (with the highest literacy rating, according to The African Economist), we notice that its curriculum is Afrocentric, the students are taught with examples and context that is relatable to them, of cause the country does have European langue’s that are used in teaching, such as Germen and English, they also have Latin and use Native languages in township and rural schools, Shona and Ndebele.   South Africa is the only country in Africa that ...

A friend asks me why i spell Afrika with a "K" and no a "C": First and foremost, the original way to spell the Black and beautifully endowed continent is “Afrika” with a “K“. However, following the invasion of the continent and enslavement of the people several years ago by imperial colonial thieves from the western world, a new name was given to the Black continent and that name is known today as “Africa” with a “C“ For many Africans and most especially Afrikan activists, the spelling of Africa with a “K” symbolizes our struggle and attempt to come back together again in unity, peace, and love – towards rebuilding the continent and our conscious mindset for the better. In other words, to return to our original (ancestral) glory – living more in harmony prior to colonial thieves invasion of our land, colonization and dispersing us across diaspora.