Tag Archives: Freedom Charter
WILL THE ANC WALK THE TALK ON LAND EXPROPRIATION?
“We are to have land again….Our land is us. We are our land. You took our land …. Without land we cannot be.” Prince Maqoma was imprisoned on Robben Island by British colonialists in 1859. He died there at the
THE EVERLASTING MESSAGE OF ROBERT SOBUKWE!
The speeches of Mangaliso Robert Sobukwe are persuasive, incisive and evocative from the time he was at Fort Hare University until he was arrested in 1960. The imagery he painted in some of his speeches depicted natural phenomena or
WHICH WAY FOR PAN AFRICANISM: THE BALLOT OR THE BULLET?
Malcolm X’s insightful speech ‘THE BALLOT OR THE BULLET’ is as relevant today as it was fifty one years ago when he delivered it in a speech in Cleveland, Ohio on April 3, 1964, just three days before the fifth
THE ANC AND ‘FREEDOOM CHARTER’: THE BETRAYAL OF A DISPOSSED PEOPLE!!
A great deal of false information was spread during June 2015 about the 60th anniversary of the “Freedom Charter” of the 1955 ANC. This was like asking the African people of this country to dance on the graves of their
WHEN THEY CAME, WE WERE ALREADY A THRIVING PEOPLE!!!
It is such a pity and lamentable that the teaching of history in South Africa has been literally banished from schools by the ANC government to serve the narrow interests of its leaders. One wonders if there are government leaders
THE FREEDOM CHARTER IS ON MY CRIMINAL RECORD!!!
The Kempton Park magistrate court convicted me for possession of banned literature in 1979. In December 2013 I applied for a Police Clearance Certificate with the South African Police Service (SAPS) in order that I could provide my bona fides
THE LAND QUESTION IN SOUTH AFRICA DEMANDS JUSTICE!!!
On 12 February 2015 the President of South Africa Jacob Zuma announced that his ANC government would soon be tabling The Regulation of Land Holdings Bill. When it becomes law, the Bill would place a ceiling of 1200 acres on
MINISTER’S HERITAGE DAY SPEECH SMACKS OF SELECTIVE AMNESIA AND IS A DISTORTION OF HISTORY!!
Last week there was a debate in the National Assembly about Heritage Day. All the heroes and heroines were mentioned except those of the PAC and to some extent BCM. There was no mention of Robert Sobukwe, Zeph Mothopeng, Urbania
