BENNIE BUNSEE (1935 – 2015): TRIBUTE TO A SOBUKWE-BIKO WARRIOR!!!
When Steve Biko died, according to the poet, birds never sang, the wind never blew,…
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DEAR DR. LONG……BLACK CONSCIOUSNESS IS MORE RELEVANT THAN EVER!!!
In his article published in the Cape Times of 7 July 2015, Dr. Wahbie Long,…
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WHERE IS OPEN DEMOCRACY IN SOUTH AFRICA TODAY?
Recently the Institute For Security Studies And The Nelson Mandela Foundation invited me to a…
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ENTER THE “SECOND TRANSITION” – 38 YEARS AFTER JUNE 16 UPRISING!!
It is 38 years since the students uprisings sparked off at SOWETO and spread to…
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IT IS 24 YEARS SINCE JAPHTA KGALABI MASEMOLA WAS KILLED!!
On this day 17th April, 1990, exactly 24 years ago, the PAC of Azania was…
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2014 ELECTIONS IN SOUTH AFRICA…VOTE RIGGING IS BECKONING!!
The arrogance of ANC leaders clearly shows that they are rigging elections and have Western…
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‘LIBERATION’ WITHOUT LAND IS GIGANTIC COLONIAL FRAUD!!
Liberation without repossession of land by the dispossessed is a gigantic colonial fraud.There can be…
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TRIBUTE TO MXOLISI ‘ACE’ MGXASHE!
Sadly, Bra Ace Mgxashe passed away in his hometown of Cape Town on Sunday 21…
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THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE POSITIVE ACTION CAMPAIGN AND THE WAY FORWARD
The significance of March 21, 1960, in the history of the liberation struggle is often played down to the level of raising worldwide sympathy for victims of apartheid and to commemorate the Sharpeville-Langa massacre. For the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) it represented and still represents the beginning of the end of settler colonialism through a roll-out of the Positive Action Campaigns, until final victory, in terms of which the African people were urged to take their destiny into their own hands.
Positive action was a phrase, akin to mass action, that would lead to a groundswell of defiant activities which forms an insurrection until the apartheid system was brought to its knees. The pass book was a badge of slavery for Africans to carry around their necks as a daily reminder that they were temporary in white South Africa. The powers that be panicked and shot peaceful demonstrators who demanded to be arrested without bail, without defense, and without fine.
