Daily Archives: March 21, 2018

RE-MEMBERING NYAKANE TSOLO: THE TRUE HISTORY OF SHARPEVILLE MUST BE TOLD

Nyakane Tsolo at Rotterdam on Robert Sobukwe's Funeral Day 11 March 1978

Post-1994 South Africa has a theatrical crisis of selective amnesia and partisan re-memberings of history. History telling, whether at school, university, in the media or public celebrations and commemorative events, is biased towards a singular political trajectory and one particular school of thought that is portrayed as the