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A multi-layered complexity of the echoes of Sarah (Saartjie) Baartman

Written by Maleke Montshiwagae


[A multi-layered complexity of the echoes of Sarah (Saartjie) Baartman]

When I first had my truly conscious encounter with Sarah Baartman, an experience that further ignited my conscious desire to dig deeper into the hills of the black experience beyond the standard daily narratives, was when I attended (Ntate) Professor Mahlomaholo’ confrontational inaugural lecture held in 2009 at the North West University following his appointment as a research Professor. It was after this encounter that I was fully transformed into a newly born again black man.

The painful, violent and brutal evolution in the story of Sarah provides the black world with an opportunity to interrogate her experiences as a reflection on white patriarchy as a representation of anti-black racism, it places further responsibility upon the shoulders of the black world to deconstruct such things as feminism within the context of a black society verses the west (white) society in classical times in order to interpret its effects in the modern black community. Questions to the importance of names and memory are captured in the evolution, with the black dehumanization process being evident. Sarah Baartman appears to be an epitome of the global black experience!

[A dissected African in the name]

The initial and probably the most important or critical step to the understanding and learning about the experiences of Sarah Baartman is in noticing the absence of her native name, together with recognizing her assigned name.

Many written articles and writers mentions that Sarah was orphaned in commando raid, and that there are no records of her birth name, (Qureshi, Sadiah (June 2004). ‘’Displacing Sarah Baartman, the ‘’Venus Hottentot’’. History of Science 42 (136): 233-257. ‘’The woman... is now called Sarah Baartman. Unfortunately no record of her original name exists and she is better known by her epithet, the Hottentot Venus’’, to her contemporaries, present-day historians, and political activists’’). Another source in support of lack of records of her birth name indicates that, ‘’the author Rachel Homes who attempts to untangle her name but eventually concedes in ‘’African Queen: the real life of the Hottentot Venus,’’ that Saartjie might not even be the name she was born with, calling the –tjie diminutive suffix a ‘’racist speech act.’’ Colonialist roots and all, it was her name in life as shed lived it’’ (http://usslave.blogspot.co.za/2011/10/real-life-of-hottentot-venus.html). In addition to the absence of her original name from the records, it appears that a British colonial name of Sarah was given to her, and as if that was not enough, her Dutch settler master Pieter Willem Cezar alters the name to Saartjie, which is said to be a Dutch diminutive version of her British name. It is also said that in Cape Dutch, the use of the diminutive form commonly indicates endearment or contempt. The basic treatment of Sarah as a slave seems to support the latter, even if one was to argue for the former for the sake of a benefit of a doubt, one would quickly be reminded by the writing in ‘’Biko lives, contesting the legacies of Biko, chapter 4: Biko and the problematic of presence’’. p.100, of the unconscious identification or desire of the evil white master that would contradict his preconscious interest indicated by his Saartjie reference as supported by his practical ability to enslave her.

The assignment of a colonial name and its diminutive alteration into a settler version, brings ‘’Something Torn and New, An African Renaissance’’ by Ngugi wa Thiongo into mind and wakes me up to his remark in this great work, when he deals with Japan’s occupation of Korea in 1906 when it banned Korean names and required the colonized to take on Japanese ones when he says: ‘’But one might ask: what is a name? And continues to mention how he remembers the encounter between the unnamed man and Crusoe in Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe as follows: ‘’..... I was greatly delighted with him’’ says Crusoe, ‘’and made it my business to make him speak, and understand me when I spoke, and he was the aptest scholar that ever was....’’

He further says, the education program that Crusoe sets up for the man begins with names. Crusoe does not even bother to ask the man’s name: ‘’ [A]nd first I let him know that his name should be Friday, which was the day I saved his life,... I likewise taught him to say ‘’Master’’, and then let him know that was to be my name’’. Subject and Master become the terms of their exchange. Even simple greetings- How are you, Friday? I am fine Master- express their unequal relationship. Friday’s body no longer carries any memory of previous identity to subvert the imposed identity.

One of the missing pieces in the Sarah puzzle is the name, this is puzzling given the account by Georges Cuvier in his monograph titled ‘’Memoires du Museum d’Histoire Naturelle’’ published in 1817 that, ‘’In addition to her native tongue, she spoke fluent Dutch, passable English and a smattering of French’’ and also, the fact that Cuvier notes that ‘’Sarah was an intelligent woman with an excellent memory, particularly for faces’’. One would imagine that if there were no records of her name, and given these noted qualities, then surely someone should have bothered to ask her original name and that she would have been able to recall it. Or perhaps this is a case of Crusoe meeting an unnamed man and not bothering to ask his name? Perhaps there was some sort of archetypical synchronicity between Master Crusoe and Master Pieter Willem Cezar to the effect that the ‘’education program’’ to be set up for the unnamed man and Sarah must begin with the name such that a new identity may be imposed upon them. This could probably be an explanation to the missing piece in the Sarah puzzle.

It is worth noting that in the African experience of naming, names are ‘’preservers’’ of past experiences that can aid in the storage of past events for example, and thereby be a way to remember and retell the past experiences. However, this understanding of the importance of naming seems to be universal as reflected in Crusoe’s naming of the unnamed man and his recognition that the imposed name will remind him of the day that he saved him. Therefore, the naming of Sarah reflects a memory erasure of the African experience, such that she may never remember that which is African and essentially her own essence as her memory will be preoccupied with the experiences of the Master slave exchange. From this, it is evident that the naming has in fact been the genesis of the dissecting of the African through Sarah Baartman.

Yours truly as an individual writer is clear that he would never fully re-express the personal experiences of Sarah through representation. This is partly motivated by the reading of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s distinction between what she terms ‘’Vertretung’’ and ‘’Darstellung’’ as forms of representation in which she defines the former as ‘’stepping in someone’s place… to tread in someone’s shoes’’, which is a political representation or a speaking for the desires of somebody. She defines the latter as representation as re-presentation, ‘’placing there’’. Representing is thus ‘’proxy and portrait’’ according to Spivak (http://ec2-174-129-30-145.compute-1.amazonaws.com/representation/). She recommends ‘’persistent critique’’, which yours truly believes that by having declared the fact that he could never re-express Sarah’s experiences through ‘’Vertretung’’ or otherwise, he has demonstrated self ‘’persistent critique’’. This, according to Spivak is to guard against ‘’constructing Sarah ‘’the other’’ simply as an object of knowledge and in the process leaving out the real other(Sarah) because of having gotten access into public places due to the waves of benevolence as Spivak would warn.

Also, that would be in-line with Spivak’s notion of ‘’unlearning one’s privilege’’ in which she says: ‘’what we are asking is that the holders of the hegemonic discourse, which my imagined educational status could qualify me as and therefore be seen as occupying a contradictory position, should de-hegemonize their position and themselves learn how to occupy the subject position of the other’’ which I can only learn through increase in knowledge regarding that position.
Therefore the reference I make that ‘’the beginning of the dissection of the African through Sarah’’, is really meant to express the collective that Sarah represents and is not suggestive of my ‘’Vertretung’’ understanding of her position because as I have mentioned, I can only learn about that position through increased knowledge alone.


[Sarah in the hands of Patriarchy manifesting as anti-black racism]

Ngugi wa Thiongo writes that, ‘’the road to colonial hell, at least for the colonized, has always been paved with good intentions’’. Sarah’s journey from the Gamtoos River Valley to England and France is no different in terms of the intentions upon which it was paved. It is reported that the British ship’s doctor Willem Dunlop promised her monetary rewards as he persuaded her to travel with him to England, this money was to be derived from the displaying of Sarah as a ‘’Freak’’ and a ‘’scientific curiosity’’

It is important to note that the drivers of the vehicle of darkness that carried Sarah through her brutal journey of anti-black violence are indeed a series of white men! Many writers and scholars who are located within a Eurocentric mind frame and thought process tends to distinguish between patriarchy and anti-black racism as separate occurrences. It is my strong view that Sarah Baartman’s suffering presents a strong and clear black lens through which one can see that patriarchy manifests itself as anti-black racism rather than being separate from it. To this end, the anti-black pre-conditions and attitudes for the road leading to Sarah’s journey and her eventual physical dissection by George Cuvier after her death are contained within the racist ideological configuration of the west (Europe) as discharged through patriarchy.

To clarify this important point, Cheik Anta Diop comes to our rescue in his book titled ‘’The Cultural Unity of Black Africa’’ in which he identifies what he terms double cradle of two geographical zones of North (Europe) and South (Africa as an example). Within these two cradles, he asserts that matriarchy originated in the agricultural South, while patriarchy originated in the North cradle being nomadic as influenced by their respective environments. Cheik notes that in the nomadic life, which was reduced to a series of perpetual migrations, the economic role of a woman was reduced to a strict minimum. She was only a burden that the man dragged behind him and that outside her function of child-bearing, her role in nomadic society is nil. Having smaller economic value, it is she who must leave her clan to join that of her husband, contrary to the matriarchal custom which demands the opposite. It is interesting that a woman must even compensate for her economic inferiority by the dowry she brings to her husband.

Contrary to this patriarchal character of the North, the woman in the South cradle contributed substantially to the economic life of the agricultural society. She even becomes one of the stabilizing elements in her capacity as mistress of the house and keeper of food, it also seems that she even played an important role in the discovery of agriculture and in plant selection while the man devoted himself to the hunt. In these primitive ages when the security of the group was the primary concern, the respect enjoyed by either of the sexes was connected with its contribution to this collective security. In an agricultural regime, it can thus be expected that the woman receives a dowry instead of bringing one to her husband as happens in nomadic life. The significance of the dowry must be explained thus: it is compensation or a guarantee provided by the less economically favored sex.

This work by Cheik, which he demonstrates in detail in his book, reveals the subtle and artificially constructed false notions of universal matriarchy used to justify a transition from an imagined universal matriarchy to patriarchy for purposes of serving a racist agenda. These revelations are seen in the two examples of authors whom Cheik critiques their theories in which a universal matriarchy past of mankind is constructed out of nowhere with no proof.

The two authors are Morgan and J.J Bachofes, but for the purpose of this work I will only take the case of J.J Bachofes to see how he constructs a racist notion of matriarchy from a Greek ideological configuration. As Cheik writes, Bachofes considers that mankind in its earliest state underwent a period of barbarism and sexual promiscuity, so that decent could only be reckoned through the female line. This is followed by a second stage called gynaecocracy which is characterized by marriage and the supremacy of the woman. The final stage is the third one distinguished from the other by a new form of marriage under the domination of the male, by masculine imperialism which is the reign of patriarchy considered superior to matriarchy in that it represents light, reason and delicacy for example. Matriarchy was linked with the cave-like depths of the earth, to the night, to the moon, to material things and passive femininity in opposition to masculine activity.

Cheik writes that Bachofes derives his argument from the Oresteia of Aeschylus (the Greek philosopher) in which the Greeks in heroic ages were ruled by gynaecocracy which deteriorated over time into patriarchy due to changing circumstances. In the detailed work that Cheik carried out regarding the North and South cradles by even studying the Romans and the Greeks, he has the following to say that: ‘’it has never been possible to determine the existence of a historical period during which the Greeks and the Romans might have lived under matriarchy’’, the Oresteia was therefore a way that Aeschylus tried to deal with the issue of law and justice as he believed that drama could be used to that effect, so Bachofes saw this as a struggle between matriarchy and patriarchy and for his racist intent decided to take that as indication of universal human transition from an inferior to a superior state.

Cheik’s analysis is of crucial importance because Bachofes and Morgan considered the sexual promiscuity and barbarism as identifiable with the South cradle society (Africa for example) which Cheik has demonstrated to be matriarchal from antiquity. The fact that matriarchy is not a general stage in human evolution, with its clear absence from the North cradle (European society), shows how the evil racists are able and capable to construct the presence of anything in their own world to pursue their anti-black agenda and to use these constructions to justify their evil deeds against black people.

Had we not had the pro-black scholars of Cheik’s caliber, it would be easy to accept these human universality and say: ‘’now that matriarchy is universal across humanity, we thank Europe’s anti-black patriarchy transition as it delivered us from the barbaric matriarchy’’, and matriarchy which was never part of Europe as demonstrated would have been the South people. These European racist-patriarchal attitudes are reflected in how Willem Dunlop is willing to display Sarah as a ‘’freak’’ and a ‘’scientific curiosity’’, the scientific curiosity is further carried out by Georges Cuvier when even after Sarah’s death he dissected her body in order to study her brain, organs, genitalia and buttocks. The fact that Sarah the ‘’the savage woman’’ was seen as distinct from the ‘’civilized female ’’ of Europe, reflects and supports the fact that indeed patriarchy as a superior state as per Bachofes, is an anti-black state that suppresses the ‘’barbaric uncivilized matriarchal’’ Africans.

Sarah’s pain and suffering as a black woman in the hands of white patriarchal men cannot be analysed from a feminist perspective because as I have shown here, Sarah suffered because she was an African and not necessarily because she was a woman. This can further be supported by Julien-Joseph Virey in his essay titled ‘’Dictionnaire des sciences medicates’’ (Dictionary of medical studies) in which he identifies Sarah’s sexual organs as more developed and distinct in comparison to white female organs which reflects sexual primitivism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saartjie_Baartman), this position is as similarly theorized by Bachofes in his consideration of how patriarchy transitioned from matriarchy located in sexual promiscuity of the South cradle.
The important character to note about the South cradle is that matriarchy in the South cradle was not ‘’pure’’ and straight as constructed by the west, Cheik demonstrates that it was characterized by a complementary role between man and woman towards a ‘’collective security’’, therefore the black feminist would get lost because for them, they will look back and search for a ‘’world’’ governed by women which they will never find.


In conclusion,the contained collective suffering of Africans is echoed from a multi-layered complexity of the suffering of Sarah Baartman as reflected in her name and fate at the hands of patriarchal white men. Her dissection is a reflection of the dissecting of the collective African from all dimensions. Sarah is the epitome of the global black experience.

awakening while eating

Written by Maleke Montshiwagae

the concept of "at least I'm doing something" is often quite reactionary. .. the reactionary charity force often use it to negatively alter the emotions of those committed to "fundamental" work regarding the black condition. ... . labels such as armchair critics are attached to "fundamental workers" to discredit their contribution given their often inconvenient and uncomfortable questions

while one acknowledges the importance and realities of the "now hunger " question within the black grammar of suffering, one also has to be cautious of the reactionary nature of charity when not coupled with a reawakening program . ..

Firoze Manji in an article under the ''thinking Africa'' Newsletter is quoted as saying: " In the struggle for emancipation, private organizations such as NGOs role has to be focused on acts of solidarity, not acts of charity. Their role is to amplify the voices of the oppressed, not to speak on their behalf. The name of the game is emancipation- I think that has to be the basis upon which everything else is done"....

he continues to define two forms of freedom, namely emancipatory, in which individuals and communities push boundaries and challenge those who delimit their freedom, and licensed freedom, in which the parameters are set and constrained by others rather than those who seek their own freedom!..

therefore, if "doing something" takes a white liberal form of feeling sorry for black people and therefore coming over to "help" by feeding them soup etc without any emancipatory agenda that would assist in dismantling the black condition, then that approach is extremely reactionary and cannot be supported from a "fundamental work" point of view. I would say that it speaks rather to a licensed freedom in which the terms of engagement are predetermined by the "helper".

if there's any charity black people could do with, is the charity of the collapse of capital relations through which blacks will be guaranteed the human status simply because the current capital relations are based on a dehumanized black reality. for example, the foundations of USA's Anglo-Saxon racist capitalism rests upon the black men as the "other" , therefore "doing something " must always be coupled with a burning desire to emancipate the black from being the "other" towards being black the human. .... hence the talk of a collapse in capital relations as we know it.......

let's do something yes! . . a sustainable emancipation. ...

Mosia Mahlomaholo

the name Christ in Afrika Kemet

written by Maleke Montshiwagae

mo Afrika bua, bua mo Afrika re tlhwaile tsebe ga re kitla re ultwa ka tsa ga morakile!... bua tlhe mo Afrika re tsebe ntlha

****Christ***** topic

the memories of how the bible knowledge and its remembrance thereof was brutally and violently enforced upon me as a young African learner through the evil system of coporal punishment within a eurocentric education system in partnership with the satanic anti-black Christianity religion are full of horror stories! . . .

some of these horror experiences includes the crakking of the whip upon yours truly's behind and back by the system apparatus, the teacher that is. ... this experience was no different to the experiences of a black slave aboard the slave ship sailing to the cotton and tobacco plantations as their African spiritual culture was exorcised through the crakk of the whip, only to be replaced with Christianity .. only difference is that my experience occurred in the classroom before the chalkboard!

also the very painful mental experience of having to remember and recitate the bible verses.... so my experience in the classroom was that of a tense, fearful and scary environment as "the accepted to be true" bible knowledge was enforced with maximum possible force, in order to transform the young African yours truly into a foreign being to himself!. ...

now, later in life one begins to learn that this was not a unique and isolated personal experience by yours truly... this kind of brutal enforcement of religion and its knowledge is a character and nature of the establishment of Christianity as an oppressive component of the larger oppressive anti-black agenda facing a collective black people. ... so schooling was a mere tool to cement it!

this satanic collaboration between education and religion was to ensure that a black child would not know the "truth" and will forever remain in the wilderness..

one of the important piece of knowledge that a black child was never taught in the Bibs classroom and Sunday school that we were forced to attend is the origins of the word CHRIST and its meaning, together with its implications.

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referenced some lines below from the review of "the Book of the Dead "

the word CHRIST is not a name of a person or a name of Jesus to begin with.... the name comes from the Egyptian word which when written in hieroglyphics is KRST found in the "Book of the dead"! ...which means a process of preparation by purifying, anointing and embalming....

so, in respect to a place where a dead body was being prepared for burial through embalment, being mummified and being put upright in a place where it was laid, the place for embalment was KRS. the process to make a mummy was to KARAS. the place where it was laid is also the KARAS, and once the process is complete and the mummy put upright it was refered to as the KRST whose image was the upright mummy or the risen CHRIST. .. hence the name of the CHRIST, Christos in Greek, Chrestus in Latin, for the anointed was derived from the Egyptian word KRST.

KARAS was also used to signify a burial place in which case the name changes to KAS.... KAS also appears as a god, and in one passage of "the Book of the Dead" KAS is described as the deliverer or saviour from all mortal needs. In ""the chapter of raising the body" it is said of the deceased that he had been hungry and thirsty on earth, but he will never hunger or thirst any more, for KAS delivers him and does away with wants like these. That is, in the resurrection. the full name of the god is then written in full as KARAST-the Egyptian CHRIST!

thus, the Egyptian KARAST was the pre-Christian Christ, proof of this is said to be available from the pictures in the Roman catacombs.... this is why the correct reference to Jesus is "Jesus the Christ" and not "Jesus Christ" ..

the whole thing goes deeper in "the Book of the Dead" where it deals with the issue of the father, Son, salvation, hymns, trinity, rebirth, the guiding of the soul aspects, purity etc. ...

the intent here was just to look at the origin of the word CHRIST....

what are the implications of this?

the implications of this knowledge becomes an mental emancipatory issue to Africans because they can now link their spiritual culture and heritage with the African spiritual foundations of Christianity and other religions...

they will reject the idea that the dealings with their ancestors is a matter of the dark, bacause how can that be if their very own ancestors derived the foundations that gave light for the development of the very religions that are rejecting them today? in fact, even the very idea of the blood of christ is covered under "the Book of the Dead"...

remembering that this book is 4200 years before the new testament and that it covers everything spiritually essential in the new testament should liberate the African from religious bondage. ....

Ase! ... hotep. .

Maleke Mosia

a decomposed state of blackness

written by Maleke Montshiwagae


mo Afrika bua

one of the basic problems or challenges to black unity/power has been the "compartmentalisation" as Fanon would put it, of the collective blacks into such compartments as the youth leagues and women's leagues etc....

in this situation, the black youth and woman are rendered incapable of comprehending the functionalities of anti-blackness, one of which is the decomposition of the black force...

therefore these league compartments represents a decomposed state of blackness! ... this means that similar to the "class analysis" by the liberals, they begin to imagine their struggle as separate and essentially different to the black agenda. ... not understanding that in the anti-black white world, such discrimination is irrelevant! . . black is black. .. nothing else

that is why for example, in the white institutions of higher learning black youth suffer and battle to enter financially and otherwise. it's not because they are a youth, it is because their socio-economic status has been determined by the anti-black structural positionality and not their age! otherwise they would be facing the same battle as the offsprings of Verwoerd and Rhodes of the same age. ....

we should really begin to conscientize and make aware the collective blacks of the reality of anti-blackness...

we should cut back on the burning desire to produce a black youth who can only repeat what is in a policy document of whatever political conference ... . .or one who's task is to speak political education without education of blackness. ...

we should also be interested in the effects of the current song wave of economic freedom in our lifetime that teaches no ''black basics" in as far as the agenda to attaining our human status is concerned... it doesn't end there. ... attainment and reconstruction of blackness expands far beyond economic freedom in our lifetime. ...

In the name of Kemet, the land of the black people. .. the land of our ancestors that has demonstrated the black intellectual triumph over material things . ...

from Mapungubwe to Kemet!

Black first! !! . . land first. .. the black revolution

Afrika the source

written by Maleke Montshiwagae

... mo Afrika bua

god did not give any knowledge to the Christian authors. .. there's no such a thing. ... that's purely part of the on-going anti-Africa biblical propaganda that forms the larger agenda of intellectual dispossession of Kemet. ... there's nothing that sits somewhere in a misterious physical or spiritual world called god, it just doesn't exist!

to set the record straight. .. I'm not an atheist or any of those west formations. . I'm a black first because our ancestors were black and the first #**

the black hermetic writers and the scribes of hermetic spiritual texts had an idea that personal credit was not in-line with the persuit of spiritual matters, therefore in their spiritual journey not to take personal credit for derivation of spiritual knowledge they conceived the idea of hermes, who was taken to be the higher divine intellectual power, and to whom all the derived spiritual knowledge was credited to avoid personal credit! . . that's why these texts in modern times are refered to as anonymous texts

it was only when the Aryan [Europeans and Arabs!] invaders of Egypt who plagiarised these texts that the personification entered spiritual matters. . they then turned hermis into God!... the Greeks spoke of hermis trismigustus.....

the current most important text plagiarised being ""the Book of the coming forth by day and night" which covers even the issue of being a christ[KRST], resurrection or rising from the dead, salvation and holy trinity etc.... these texts preceed the New Testament by 4200 years but covered exactly what is the New Testament! . . .

so the very idea that the authors of the so-called the holy bible were god inspired is in itself plagiarism and hence anti-black satanism.....



Black first. ...

the whitening of Egypt

written by Maleke Montshiwagae Mahlomaholo


i sometimes get to be asked, but what happened to Egypt that we only see these light complexioned Arabs?... is it really true that Egypt is the land of the black people!.... these questions comes amid the fact that Egypt is in Africa.. North Africa....

I must admit that i do not blame anybody for asking these questions as I was also once bothered by that question, but the main reason has been what the media wants the many to see....

The answer to this question can be very difficult because of the racist historical agenda around Egypt in attempting to erase black/African people from their own great civilization stemming from Egypt.... so Egypt has been a topical issue for years....


this is how i would like to answer the question:....

Firstly, one has to appreciate the evil ideological agenda of the racist white past in which there were two options conceived in order to wipe out the black population...namely miscegenation or segregation... this was now after the genocide option was no longer viable after the abolition of slavery....

so what then happened was that in places like Brazil, Cuba, Jamaica, Australia and the Middle East, the strategy was to carry out the miscegenation agenda which was based on social Darwinism and Aryanism by bringing white European immigrants from Germany and Spain for example, so that they could interbreed with the local black population, and in so doing over time, it would get rid or wipe out the indigenous black population....

In SA we know that the strategy was segregation . . . .

therefore with respect to the case in point of Egypt, the original Arabs were reportedly blacks before they interbreed with the lighter Persians resulting in the Arabs that we see today... and these are the Arabs that invaded Egypt over the years and together with the many other nations...... so the people we are seeing there today are not the original indigenous black people!.....

We know this fact because of history and scientific studies carried out by Prof Cheik Anta Diop when he performed melanin test of the ancient mummies that are kept by the French in the Paris museums,... the samples that he tested indicated that the ancient mummies before the Arab invasion contained melanin, thereby confirming their black identity!.... it is reported that after Cheik performed the test, suddenly the mummies disappeared from where they were kept such that he could not perform any further testing....

therefore from the above, it is clear as to what happened in Egypt......

attached some pics of Brazil example, Black Egyptian and Arabs..........

note: there is generally a variation among blacks from South to North Africa in terms of features.... exactly the same way that there is that variation from East to West Europe.... so there is that variation among the respective races which should not confuse us ....... it's different to this issue.....

thinking into the new black self

written by Maleke Montshiwagae Mahlomaholo

if one is not prepared to be caught up in contradictions in some future time period ... then one is certainly not prepared to imagine a new way of thinking and therefore re-imagination of a new future.. .. particularly in the black sphere ....

the expression ''i think therefore I am'' by René Descartes, expresses in a deeper fashion, a real time continuum connection between a process and self. it expresses the reality that a new way of thinking rejuvenates a new self because at any given moment when we alter our thinking, we alter the self to a new level... therefore, to become a new self, a new way of thinking is inherently a prerequisite.....

so, we cannot as the black underclass fighting for acquisition of human value status, which is a contradiction between the necessity of blackness and its existence and whiteness/ anti-black-world be caught up in such issues as that of democratic centralism of the Gwedes clouding the minds of the 1912 bloc and whose dialectics are far from speaking the language of the black people.
that would imply that we are not ready for a new black self . .

we are either both consciously often through pre-conscious declarations and unconsciously, both of which are dangerous and a negativity towards black human value status acquisition, avoiding the contradiction or there is an unidentified basic question which is unlikely!

Fanon last night before i slept ''told'' me that: ''the singularity of colonialism is that it is unable to avoid the humanity element/dimension in that, the type of species or race determines the wealth status within it''

so from that whispering voice of Fanon I gathered, that for us the black underclass to become the new black self by acquiring the human value status in the distribution of human values, we must forge new ways of thinking because in accordance with ''I think therefore I am'' that contains the human factor ''I am'', we will have defined a ''new'' us in a supposedly ''post-apartheid moment''. we must involve ourselves in the human contradiction element that reveals the singularity of colonialism in order to resolve it into our black favor.... and in this way, we could alter the determination of wealth [our dispossessed land] towards us.... really?

therefore I say: ''the new thoughts the new us''....

''I think therefore I am''

anti-black trade unionism

written by Maleke Montshiwagae Mahlomaholo


the cosatu shenanigans with respect to the black condition reminds me of my favorite book by J Sakai titled ... Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat....

One writer praised this book as follows:

“When Settlers hit the tiers of San Quentin, back in 1986, it totally exploded our ideas about what we as a new class of revolutionaries thought we knew about a so-called ‘united working class’ in amerika. And what's more, it brought the actual contradictions of national oppression and imperialism into sharp focus. It was my first, and as such my truest, study of the actual mechanics behind the expertly fabricated illusion of an amerikan proletariat.”
—Sanyika Shakur,

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the interesting thing for me also has being the illusive construction of the working class unity beyond race!....

reason being that the earliest trade unionism in Amerika was based on the importing of for example, people like the Basques whom the so-called pure Anglo saxon race used as workers and who were already class conscious from the contradictions arising from europe, therefore the idea was that the black slaves would see these Basques people as fighting for the workers interests while in the mean time, black slaves did not form part of the settler society class hierarchy because they[blacks] themselves were commodities as owned by the Anglo saxon pure white race...

on the other hand, the very Basques people's interests were those of labour aristocracy in terms of establishing ranks within the working class itself as we see with the cosatu tendencies....

therefore the point is that black slaves were under the illusion that the trade union working class unity and struggle included them, but it couldn't have been the case as they were the underclass...

the Anglo Saxon upper class did this working class illusion deliberately to avoid mass reaction from the increased number of black slaves ........ simply because the blacks would think that they share the same struggle as the working class struggle!

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by the way just for info:

the Basques people are ''whites'', but they are one of the first of the earliest ''white stock'' who actually arrived as the Grimaldi Negroid from Afrika and mutated over time into the so-called Cro-Magnon man in europe.... crudely put, they are one of the first whites who became white from black people through processes of adaptation and selection, there was no new humans as modern humans had already developed in Afrika, it was just a mere phenotypic change! ((()))) taken from Prof Diop's book: Civilization or Barbarism: An Authentic Anthropology

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therefore they were considered not good enough to be white by the later Anglo saxon white race....

so the black underclass was not receiving any wage[free labour] while the working class Basques and others were wage earners .... it was blacks in the plantations and the Basques in the workshops etc....

from this then, it becomes clear that we are blacks first...

cosatu for me fails to reflect deeply on black matters....

Black spiritual counter hegemony

written by Maleke Montshiwagae Mahlomaholo

For sometime now I have been undergoing both spiritual and religious decolonisation process against both the established religious and spiritual hegemony,....
in that process it became clear to me that there is a need for black people to adopt a counter-hegemonic "antagonistic spiritual consciousness" against the established religious hegemony. ..
.........

........ but in that adoption, it seems more appropriate at least based on how I view it, to have an agnostic position as the end goal because these matters can often lead to an unproductive chaos if caution is not taken or if a "believer absolutism" mentality is adopted as seen in certain sectors of black Christians of the self righteousness type, who openly declares that "Jesus is the only way and nothing else"... this is the sort of religious arrogance we need to avoid in order to maintain peace and be tolerant to each other ...... .

))))))))again, the agnostic position should be central((((((((

I found the following words by some researcher quite helpful:

"The decolonization of Africa, of which the dismantling of apartheid in South Africa is a recent example, led to a greater recognition of the wide variety of religions practising on its soil.

When confronted with this plurality, and the corresponding plurality of claims to truth or credibility, believers usually resort to either absolutism or relativism. The absolutist evaluates the religious other in view of criteria which violate the self-understanding of the latter. The religious other is thus being colonized by a hegemony (i.e. an enforced homogeneity) of norms and values.

In an attempt to transcend this hegemonic colonization, the relativist, on the other hand, simply surrenders the evaluation of beliefs and practices to subjective arbitrariness". . . . unquote

therefore as Africans, we can no longer allow the absolutist believer to evaluate our African religions and spiritual matters in accordance with the criteria that violates our own self-understanding, we cannot allow it! . .

because that in turn perpetuates hegemonic colonization of the African religion and spirituality as highlighted above. ..

Bokao jwa thuto ya badimo ba rona

e kwadilwe ke: Maleke Montshiwagae

tota thuto e re e amogetseng ga ese thuto e kgontshang ngwana wa mmala wa sebilo go ka akanya goya ka tsela e badimo ba rona ba neng ba akanya ka yone! . . .

dikakanyo tsa bone di ne di itshetlegile ka tlhago, semoya, modimo le badimo ba bone . ..

ke bua ka thuto e feletseng . . .

Ngaka(Dr) George James mo dikwalong tsa gagwe [Stolen Legacy: Greek Philosophy is Stolen Egyptian Philosophy] o re lemotsha ka moo badimo ba rona ba neng ba tlhaloganya kamano ya metsi a noka, modimo, badimo, tsa science, tsa semoya le tlhago!.. .

ebile o tlhalosa gore maGerika ba ne ba sa tlhaloganye sentle bokao jwa se se bidiwang "atom" ka moo maAfrika ba neng ba se tlhalositse ka teng mo makwalong a dithuto tsa sedumedi . .

ka moo, science ene ya diega go tswelela pele ka go nne maGerika ba ne ba rile ba re yone "atom" e ka se aroganngwe ele gore dithuto tsa sedumedi tsa maAfrika di ne di ruta gore go se se tshwanetseng sa utulolwa mo go tsone di "atom" le one metsi a dinoka jaaka re tla kaediwa ke badimo ka fa tlase ga maatla a Modimo....

kgang ya tsone tse di tla utululwang mo metsing ke science re di lemoswa ke fa batho ba rona ba bantsho ba romelwa ko metsing a dinoka go ya go thwasa, kana go nna dingaka tsa setso.. . . go nale maatla a leng teng moo. ..

science e simolola go lemoga seo ka gore le se bareng "nuclear fusion" e kgona go ka dirisa dielemente tse di agang metsi go "gamola" matla ao.....

tsotlhe tse, go akaretsa le yone "nuclear fision" di ne di bonwa mo dikwalong tsa se dumedi le semoya!...

ka jalo, a thuto ya badimo ba rona e busediwe ko go rona.....

tswetswe

Structure

Written by Maleke Montshiwagae

when being asked what is the practical thing that needs to be done in order to resolve the questions of both the continental and diaspora blacks/Africans in response to the international oppression . .

I often think of the momentary divergence, in fact not divergence but slight extensions of Fanon to Biko thoughts while they remained in agreement. ... in which Fanon went a step further to introduce the idea of "human relationality" in which he says,

"for the current human relations to continue to exist, black people must remain at the bottom of a vertical distribution of human values, because should black people aquire these values, it would result in an explosion of humanity into an incoherent mass"

therefore, what Fanon was highlighting was that, just like in a filal economy where a child is birthed into a particular family whereby he/she does not chose, in other words positioned already at birth. .. black people find themselves in that kind of structural positionality within this political economy, whereby their socio-economic position is already determined by virtue of being black! ...

the human relational question of fixed distribution of human values is essentially governed by whiteness, who can really only strive on the absence of blackness or black being, defined by absence within these values....

it therefore becomes instructive that, the only real way to practically deal with the international questions confronting black people, the white structure or supremacy must collapse in order to do away with this structural positionality issue, not the capital redistribution of the RDP of the anc... because that capital relation must die for the collapse to be meaningful. ..

anything other than this solution becomes a technical discussion similar to gay and women issues, which will take us beyond another five hundred years. ...

Biko however is correct also to say that, it is not enough to only gain economic freedom, because after that we have a slate of white values and culture to dust off! . . .

you can see micro examples of this in the black middle class who have fled to the white suburbs in how they represent the need to dust off white values and culture after economic freedom. ... not to suggest that they have economic freedom because they really only represent the buffer zone and not a real example of ownership of the means of production. ....

Black first. . .

anti-Black progressiveness

Written by Maleke Montshiwagae

"black issues can't be lumped into progressive issues, gay issues, women issues, or even a religious issue. Race issues in this country is very specific and we need to address these issues as such.

a solution that does not address black people directly are solutions we should abandon, including this ridiculous progressive argument that West makes. a black person has been the face of global racism, that's all you need to know, this bullshit West is talking about is distraction! . . we need to focus on black politics, not this progressive bullshit". . he said. ..

after I read this comment from a black brother in America. .. I thought to myself that in South Africa we have in respect to Afrophobia, that. ..

suddenly even across the media houses like radio we have the "stop xenophobia for the sake of human dignity" kind of pronouncements!.... tv distributing similar sentiments. ...

soldiers and police being sent into inhuman hostels housing black people under inhuman conditions and I thought what a contradiction. ... who are these humans for whose sake xenophobia needs to stop? ....

we have some kak political diplomatic act of militarizing the black environment that is already in an inhumane condition for black people to leave in via the hostel dwelling. ... black people were assaulted, they had to get out of their crowded rooms only wearing shorts pants into the corridors, doors were kicked down in the middle of the night etc. .... even the minister of defence saying that "those people" must know that the soldiers do not know how to handle people nicely so they must be careful!

the remnants of the global racist and antiblack system of whiteness manifesting as Afrophobia, .... and the black government trying to diplomatically respond by showing the "world" or should I say investors that they can further dehumanise the black soul on tv screens as assurance that Afrophobia is been dealt with! . . remember how they killed black people in marikana to show white capital that they could deal with the black issue?..

we have similar progressive and bullshit technical arguments around how to control Africans into African countries etc. .. but no one speaks black politics of the situation. ... look at how black people are drowning in the Mediterranean sea in search of better life in Europe? ... the very conditions created by global racism they have to flee. ..

I recall the Nigerian Boko Haram abduction of the kids were the whole of the progressive world were calling for the USA to send troops to deal with boko haram and also bring back the girls campaigns mushroomed all across.. that would surely support the militarization of Africa project by the evil US whom are actually the fundamental cause of Africa's problems and thereby giving themselves a better military control over African issues and thereby recapture. .. were are those progressives as we speak?

the solution therefore to Africa questions is not some progressive arguments such as good governance and border controls, but reference to getting rid of global racism and therefore capital whose foundations are the suffering of African as the "other", just like we saw in the inhuman hostel . .

don't tell black people that we are all humans because we are not, otherwise we wouldn't have to have a constitution to tell us that! . .... we are black people and our issues must be dealt as such. ... once that is done we can then come back to the human issue. ..

... ... black first

hard work. . .

Written by Maleke Montshiwagae

on concept of working hard

there is a general tendency to encourage the oppressed black masses in their various strata, the oppressed and basically the wretched of the earth who forms the foundational shoulders of economic "prosperity" of white south africa through cheap hard labour .....

this tedious "advice" seems to ignore the hardworking miner in the undergrounds of Africa-"land of London"- in Lonmin and really across the underground land of the rusternburg platinum belt within the Mzansi context. . .

these "advisors" of the need to "work hard" can either be assumed to have a convenient memory loss or "intentional ignorance" by any standards. . . intentional ignorance taking the form of "let's all work together and forget what happened for the benefit of "our" country", it's not to say that the "tedious advisor" is unaware of the already hard work that is taking place underground in rusternburg, no, he/she is aware but hides behind convenient memory loss. ...

he/she conveniently forgets that the very economics he/she seems to be preoccupied with in terms of hard work, hard work is already taking care of it! this is the tendency to rule out the black inhuman underclass because it has been ruled out of an everyday dialogue and memory. ..

these tedious voices typically emanates from the black and white petit-bourgeoisie who self-appoint themselves into positions of neutrality in accordance with the visions of a progressive reactionary tendency, rather than to see the need to free the black oppressed hard worker in the bowels of the earth at Lonmin shafts. .

these petit-bourgeoisie are a bribed force who partly and indirectly share from the petty rewards from the super profits of the racist economic capitalists in a form of a black middle class construction meant to neutralize the true proletariat revolutionary consciousness of the underground hard working black underclass. ..

black kids of these underclass slaves or hard "workers" are encouraged to work hard. .. to work hard for what? ... to be incorporated into the black middle class construction project? ...

or we are told again in the inverse rhetoric, to rather work smart! . well let tell you, global economics were never built on smartness, it was built on genocide, violence and gruesome dehumanisation of oppressed. . the smartness entered the white Anglo Saxon consciousness apparently post world war II, this was in realizing the need to construct future black middle class who will preach the message of working hard and importance of a "good" economy, while erasing the underground wretched of the earth off the daily memory. ...

so who is working hard? .. and who must work hard? ...

the brilliance of Jeremy Seabrook in analysing the etymology of the word "work" reveals disturbing latent violence contained in it as he would put it, at least in as far as its Eurocentric conception is concerned. ..

the underlying questions around the word "work" covers things like, is work a act of human free will for substenence purposes or is it a punitive act as understood in a Eurocentric world whose society like the Pilgrims of Plymouth rocks, as highlighted by J. Sakai, fled Holland because they did not want to work but own the land and slaves who would work for them as they enjoy the materialistic good things of life... and they did exactly that when arriving in America. ..

it therefore becomes scary when even the black petit-bourgeoisie screams hard work to the black community, because given the latent violence contained in the word "work" from a Eurocentric stand point, using "hard work" even doubles the trouble of the black oppressed in favour to the white economy. ..

therefore our task ahead whatever the form it may take, must be to bring back into national memory the knowledge of the existence of the wretched of the earth located under the Lonmin earth of Africa. . . just so that we can refresh our memory of the existence of on-going "hard work". . so that working smart also can be problematized because it implies the support of a black middle construction who represents a negativity in the struggle of the true black proliteriat as it were....

the problematizing of working smart can lead us to see it as meaningless unless the Afrocentric definition of the word work is formulated and used as a guiding word

in this way, the true proletariat revolutionary consciousness can become a focal point, rather than pitty-bourgeoisie revolutionary consciousness that is really concerned with petty self interests and the interests of a "progressive" country!

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Afrophobia unmasked

Written by Maleke

the international economic structure and basis are really an anti black/African at best, hence our battle for "inclusion" into it, one can just take as a example the figures of the local Johannesburg stock exchange to get an idea of what I refer to when saying "inclusion", this is irrespective of the disputes around what constitutes black ownership and the numbers depending on who did the research!

In any case, by international here I limit the definition to Europe and America, I deliberately chose to leave the other parts like the Arab world in my definition as that would constitute another topic altogether.

the history of racist capitalism and its foundations traces its foundations and lays upon the blood, sweat, dehumanisation and a complete dismantling programme of an African, both psychologically and physically through brutal and violent methods employed by the white men, with the current methods being the strategic nonviolent ones such as education.

a summary of the white men's history. ... the white men battles for resources amongst themselves in europe because being in a lower class in a white society was almost considerd a curse and individuals were almost treated as outcasts, with the upper class living and enjoying the materialistic life of gambling, drinking etc, hence even Karl Marx's theories being based on generalizations of historic materialism, the upper class was the class that eventually won and owned the land from the internal battles. now that the lower class felt humiliated by this, the started to travel out of europe to sick for a place where they could own land and hence be of upper class themselves!

this land becomes America and the Carrabians, they get there, kill indigenous Indians in millions in a violent land dispossession, they go to Africa to get Africans to work the plantations at free labour through slavery, they also disposes the Africans of their land and make them work the land for free.

the contact of the white men with the African is therefore a genocidal one of extreme forms of violence, only in pursuit of the status of upper class through land ownership! . . this is the nature of the white men in simple terms.

the white men then develops the industries in which the plantation produce by Africans for free would be processed, in these industries worked white laborers while in the plantations worked the dehumanised African.

It is out of this free African labour and selling of African slaves as commodities that maximum profits were derived to establish capitalism as we know it today. It is a known fact today that as soon as labour costs rises then the "market" collapses! . . therefore it makes sense that the racist anti African capitalist market rouse out of free African labour. .

the point here is that, America and Europe are the same white people. . . . . hence the IMF and World Bank as we know them....

in short, the economic structure as we know it today, is based on the materialistic hunger of the white men and his inhumane nature that thrived on the dehumanising programme of the African rendering the African subhuman.

Now, as an example, we have also seen the divide and rule strategies that has damaged Africa at large, we have seen different tribes within the same black nation being divided for example in Sudan where the one part of it was given education while the other part not leading to internal conflicts, Uganda is another example.

South Africa itself has a history of tribal conflicts arising from the migrant labour system, even in the mines today we see Xhosas from eastern cape being taken to work in Marikana mines whereby the local Batswana speaking then feels that the Xhosa "foreigners" are taking "their jobs", as a results of this, black on black conflicts arises! the other example is Nigeria who has large oil reserves where religious conflicts are a problem amongst black people. the whole intent is that Africa must remain unstable in order for Britain and America to continue extracting its minerals to maintain the upper class hunger of the white men.

Therefore, Afrophobia must be extrapolated from divide and rule strategy applied to the African tribes. ... basically African against African from various countries is an expanded version of tribe against tribe.

Therefore what we are witnessing here in Mzansi and Africa at large, can only be permanently routed out through the collapse of white economic supremacy. . You cannot resolve it with controls and security forces because then you are addressing the symptoms and technical issues rather than the core question!

Hellen Zille once refered to the Xhosa Africans fleeing poverty in the eastern cape as foreigners into Cape Town, imagine what could have happened? . .. ... so I agree our leaders must be careful of what they say

but the fundamental issue is clear to me. . Africa must free beyond colonial borders

We cannot as the picture depicts, raise the Bible and pray while the white men brutally attacks mother Africa. ..

a memory of place

On the question of a contention of a memory of place! . . . Written Maleke Montshiwagae

Ngugi wa Thiongo writes that, Waiyaki wa Hinga who resisted and harassed the British colonial forces was captured and buried alive with his head facing the bowels of the earth, which is in opposition to the Gikuyu burial rites' requirements that the body face mount Kenya, the dwelling place of a supreme deity. .

again....Ngugi points out that the same British captured King Hintsa of the Xhosa resistance and decapitated him, taking his head to the British museum!
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on another account...Professor Sechaba Mahlomaholo notes that the body of Sara Baartman was dissected, literally and physically cut open and piece by piece her brains and genitalia preserved in formaldehyde and kept in museums in order for future generations not to forget how different and diverse we are, with Africans at the bottom rank of civilisation. ... Sara was even mocked in the universities of Europe when still alive. .. Mahlomaholo continues to say that : "For me what is worth noting is how Sara Baartman’s story captures in a nutshell processes of disruption, interruption and dismemberment of the African at the global level, at the continental level, at the national level, at the institutional level, at the interpersonal and ultimately, at the intrapersonal level"..

Mahlomaholo and Ngugi reminds us of important aspects of the concurring of the African, the one aspect being the brains in Sara' instance and memory in the decapitating of Hintsa, both of which were kept in European museums, which is a symbolic representation of the fact that the African mind has been erased and is in possession of Europe! this possession and erasure is captured in practical action in universities across Africa. ..

. . the fact that Sara was also mocked in the universities of Europe with the statues of the likes of Rhodes celebrated and erected in eurocentric universities located in Africa for example, implies the degradation of the African identity and implantation of the European memory which would dominate how we remember. .

the burying of Waiyaki alive against the Gikuyu burial rites symbolically represents the erasure of African culture and spiritual aspects by colonial satanism of British. . that is why universities are referred to as cultural institutions which are there to violently get rid of and bury alive African culture and instill European culture. .

I remember the burying of Rhodes amongst the kings of kings of the Zim Kingdom because he wanted to erase that African Kingdom memory as he believed he was the superior king. ... hence the importance of removing his remains and sending them back to Europe as they continue to haunt Zim....

the one problem area as an example to memory erasure in the South African vote government is the question of education, in which the African child's ability and method of remembering is dominated and in possession of the British museum as is Hintsa's head! .

the African child's brains are completely dissected just like those of Sara, which is indicated in complications arising in the education system with respect to the educating of Africans. .

One finds educated black non-racial liberals analysing education by the very line of thought that created the very same problems without questioning whether the African should be educated in this way and under these dissected conditions? .. shouldn't a reconstruction programme come first and followed by a suitable education to the African mind to resolve the issue? .....

our being as Africans is nonexistent to date. .

it is clear that the African must be reconstructed at all levels of memory. . . the African should not die impoverished prostitute and lonely. ...

who built it? talking beyond the rainbow

Written by Maleke Montshiwagae

Black people of Africa built America for free through slavery, we built America of the evil white english men for free at free labour, in fact America with its skyscrapers rests upon the bones of my ancestors. ..

America rests upon the bones of the American natives the indians, whom the heartless white men wiped through unreported genocide of the scale of millions. . some 10million indians brutally murdered in the North of America by the English white man of Europe in a violent land dispossession process! . . Another further millions across America. ... this is genocide ladies and gentlemen. . this is true genocide,

the African land was dispossessed of its African blackman to labour the dispossessed land of the indian native for free ladies and gentlemen, the black man was not a worker ladies and gentlemen. .. . he was indeed a commodity himself as he could be exchanged in the slave trade ladies and gentlemen, surplus from the plantation whose basis was free labour of the black man of Africa could be used to further the eurocentric industrial development ladies and gentlemen. ... hence the white men pregnant with an evil child named this child capitalism at birth! . . hence capitalism was born! . . .at the blood, dismemberment, enslavement, killing and raping of the African at labor! . .

ladies and gentlemen, when the white men continued now his evil ways in Africa, he dispossess my ancestors twice, first it was labour dispossession through exploitation in the American plantations, now he dispossess my ancestors of the land in Africa and dispossess him off his labour again ladies and gentlemen! . . when the very first trade unionism appeared in the industrial sectors ladies and gentlemen, it was formed by white workers who were part of the white society and hence class hierarchy, therefore their plight was for white labor aristocracy of the white working class, ladies and gentlemen this had nothing to do with the labour rights of the black slave, the black dispossessed, the subhuman black man for he formed not part of white societal class structure! . .

ladies and gentlemen, America was built upon the bones of my ancestors!

I stand tall upon the shoulders of my ancestors today because if they could carry the skyscrapers and the plantations upon their shoulders then who am I ladies and gentlemen? ... .

so ladies and gentlemen, upon whose shoulders will the anc build the black industrialist ?. .. .

In defence of eternity

Written by Maleke Montshiwagae

the question of eternity is not at all dependent on any acceptance or not of a particular religious Messiah, and it's not a question relevant to the deeds in the physical realm as a limitation to its realization . .

the issue of eternity is a timeless one, it is a constant property of the totality of unconsciousness and consciousness. .

the physical realm is really an issue of consciousness and its awareness, which has brought the existence of the universe to question by the so called "participatory anthropic principles" which poses the question: can the universe exist if there's no consciousness around to observe it?...

but this does not question the unconscious component of ourselves. . even if the universe didn't exist as we know it, unconsciousness would still exist because it has carried us from the before life

modern science through quantum mechanics has also raised the question of the reality of physical existence in its dealings to the effect of quantum entanglement, whereby the outcome of a scientific measurement also depends on the observer [consciousness]. this means that before taking a measurement, the value of whatever you gonna measure could be anything, it is only when you make an effort to measure it that you get to know what the value is!. . so in that way you have influenced the outcome. . this means that your conscious presence influences the universe. ..

for example, if there's a cat inside a dark box through which you cannot see but you know there's a cat inside, you can only know whether the cat is dead or alive by opening the box to see. ..

otherwise if you don't open the box, the cat is both dead and alive. .. some scientist[Schrodinger] came up with this thought experiment. .. so you as an observer, you are determining the state of the cat or the universe. . so is the universe there in absence of consciousness? .. you decide! lol

the point here is that, there is always a coupled complementary existence of consciousness and unconsciousness in the before life, during life and in the afterlife. .

maybe the students of science would understand if I talk of the uncertainty principle of Heisenberg where it says that if the speed of a particle is accurately known then its position will be uncertain, or if its position is accurately known then its speed will be uncertain! . . .so if our conscious component diminishes as in when we die, then the unconscious component dominates, but when the conscious component reaches its maximum as in when we are alive, the unconscious part diminishes. ... but they are both always there in a balance! .

.. therefore this is a character of mother nature, the constancy of eternity. . . it has got nothing to do with messianic limitations. . .. .

we are a spiritually eternal beings!

Maleke Montshiwagae-Mahlomaholo

UCT question

written by Maleke Montshiwagae

if Karl Marx's basic axiom of base superstructure in classical Marxism is anything to go by, it's equilibrium position and feedback from superstructure into base and vise versa is exemplified in the UCT outcry... Ngugi wa Thiongo speaks of the canons of English education and literature immortalized in the production of the African middle class whose intent by the British colonial power was to setup future ''partnerships''.. .

these partnerships are today echoed in the corridors of black educated liberals who are contaminated by tendencies of European enlightenment of capitalist modernity whose basis and centrality of formation was the inhuman oppression, dismemberment and enslavement of the African... these type of Africans forms part of the canon outputs shooting at the black condition just like the type of education they received and their white counterparts, only to be seen in rational circles as educated and representative of how a rational human being should behave. . .

No one ever questions the rationality of Rhodes, debates are proposed in the white liberal corner of looking at the benefits and positive contributions Rhodes made in Africa!. . the establishment of the university of cape town forms part of the colleges of the university of London whose intent was to form the new evil colonial methods of black memory erasure, destruction of black languages and culture and insertion of the European image into the African.... it can therefore not be correct to argue that there were positive intents for such an establishment...... the presence of Rhodes and the establishement of UCT represents the symbolic beheading of the Xhosa king Hintsa by Britain in that the beheading was a symbolic erasure of black memory of place, just as the Rhodes statue is, however the actual instituational existance of UCT represents the mental violence and complete clean-up of the African vocabulary in partnership with the African middle class as planned by the British evil system!.....

but the Karl Marx axiom needs a critical look into simply because its fundamental basis derives from Marx's historical materialism generalizations, therefore the plight of black people in UCT is not strictly a base superstructure equilibrium position but a fundamental contention of bringing ''blackness recognition'' into an anti-black institution of whiteness, the struggle is not a class contradiction but an appraisal of black humanness.... the restoration of a black memory of place!

Afrika Borwa wa maaka. .

Mokwadi: Maleke Montshiwagae

nthetseng fa ke re thulaganyo ya mo Afrika Borwa e itshetlegile ka maaka, ditoro le go sa batle go tshwara Nare ka dinaka...bona fa, utlwa, nkutlwelle** ke a re, e ka se re o itlhela mmolai a tswaletswe mo ntlong e le osi le motho yo o siameng, e le gore motho yo o siameng o tswaletswe gobo a ne a bua nnete ka ga mmolai fa mmolai ene a tswaletswe gobo a bolaile batho ba gabo motho yo o siameng, o be o fitlha o ba akaretsa ka komanyo o ba raya o re ba tlogele go bolaya batho, fela ka ntlheng ya gore o ba fitlhetse ba tswaletswe mo ntlong e le osi, gape ele gore ga o batle go utlwisa maikutlo a mmolai botlhoko!.........mo go dimo ga se, o be o tsenya monona mo mpaoleng ka go ba raya o re ba leke ka thata go tshedisana ka kagiso***

........................................................................nnya, o ka se dire jalo!...se o tota o se dirang fano ke phoso e kgolo thata ka ntlheng ya gore fela ko tshimologong o simolola o batla go sireletsa maikutlo a mmolai kgabagare ga o lemoge gore o golofatsa tlhaloganyo, maikutlo, botho le gotlhe ga motho yo o siameng fa wena o lelekisane le tshedisano mmogo e ebileng mmolai a senang kgatlhego mo go yone go feta go laola!...ka seja tlhapi gatwe**your starting point and foundation is flawed***............................................................................................................................

se ke lekang go se tlhalosa fano ke gore, mo Afrika Borwa batho ga mmogo le mokgatlho wa Masilo wa ANC jaaka rre Mangope o tle a ba bitse, ba goeleditse bare ''maAfrika Borwa botlhe'' ba tseye matsapa a go ka tshedisana mmogo!...go ya ka nna, se ke nnyenyefatso ya matsapa a batho ba ba ntsho ba a tseileng ka ngwaga wa 1994 ka go reetsa rre Mandela fa a ne a ikuela gore batho ba rona ba beye marumo fatshe....bo rre tutu le bone ba le mo teng ba dirisa bodumedi go ka re ritibatsa maikutlo! ..ka jalo, masilo a ANC, batho ba bodumedi, badichabachaba le ba goeletsi mmogo ga ba thusi ka sepe fa ba bua ka kakaretso fela mo moeng gore ''batho [botlhe] ba Afrika borwa'' ba dire ka thata go berekela tshidisano mmogo, se ba tshwanetseng go se dira ke go ya go raya bashweu seo, e seng go akaretsa ka komanyo rotlhe ka ntlheng ya gore ba utlwisa maikutlo a rona botlhoko le go nnyenyefatsa matsapa a rona a 1994 e le fa ba sireletse maikutlo a mmolai e leng moshweu!

......................................................................ka jalo, tshimologo ya go bona tswelelo pele e e nang le bokao, e ka se ikaege ka go sa bue le batho ba ba maleba e leng bashweu, e ka se ikaege ka maaka, e ka se ikaege ka go sireletsa ditlhokwa tsa bashweu ba bolai ka go re utlwisa botlhoko le go nnyenyefatsa boleng jwa rona, nnete ya batlega le fa e baba!.................................................................

ka go feleletsa""":::gopola o ipotse gore ba ne ba le kae bone bashweu ka ''the social cohesion summit'' ngwaga tlola wa 2012?.....

Go ikitse go a thusa

Mokwadi: Maleke Montshiwagae

Basweu ba bophirima ba tlhola le go tla ka kgang ya gore motho o ne a swa go fela ka ene fa a raga kika, tumelo ya bone ene e le gore botshelo jwa motho bo ne bo tshwana le kerese ka ntlheng ya gore fa o tima kerese lesedi le a fela mme ga gona botshelo morago ga moo!

Jaanong, rona maAfrika go ya ka tumelo le Kitso, e seng tumelo fela, o nthetse sentle, ke rile go ya ka tumelo le Kitso ya rona re ne re itse ka botlalo gore go nale karolo ya senama le ya se moya mo botshelong, ka jalo fa motho a raga kika o ne a sa swe, go ne go sa fele ka ene, mme o ne a tswelela go tshela ko karolong ya se moya e e senang bokhutlo, maAfrika ba ne ba itse gore tsotlhe tse di leng teng ke karolo ya tlhago mme se se tlhaloswa ke ka moo re tlotlang mabitla le badimo ba rona, botlhokwa jwa mabitla re bo bona le ko Egepetwa le dikarolo tse dingwe tsa Africa fa motho a ne a agelwa pyramid ele go mo baakanyetsa gore a goroge sentle ko felong la se moya.....

jaanong basweu ba batla gore re latlhe kitso e ka ntlheng ya gore Jeso o tlile go re boloka mo losong!!!...rona re itsile kgale go tloga ga Lowe gore motho ga a swe, re itsile pele ba goroga mo Afrika, re itsile le pele ga testamente e ntsha e kwadiwa le go bua ka Jeso, ka jalo a Jeso a ye go boloka bone kgatlhanong le loso le ba buang ka lone.....

re leboga badimo ka kitso e tseneletseng e ba re tlogeletseng yona gore re kgone go itshireletsa kgatlanong le masilo a bophirima.

the iconography of mother Africa

Written by Maleke Montshiwagae

rite from the onset I must add that I was tempted to suggest that what is missing in the background or the back of mother Africa in this motionless picture is white warriors of the evil character of Napoleon Bonaparte representing the forceful character of Europeans upon mother Africa! ...but something reminded me, that they [evil intellectual white psychologists] would typically say that ''take care of their [African people given birth to by mother Africa] minds'' and everything else will fall into place, this does not invalidate my temptations as both are complementary forces entertaining the same white supremacy objective....

the iconography first an foremost portrays mother Africa as accommodating to foreigners, the look on her face indicates that she is concerned with her child but perhaps like the too good for nothing Saint Mandela taught us about useless and timeless hope, she has hope that white supremacy will get full and stop feeding off her!......the white child feeding from mother Africa's breast represents two possible things, one is the emphasis that race is irrelevant to her in terms of genotype since she understands that humanity begins in Africa on the positive, and that the whites became what they are through processes of selection and adaptation but they remain essentially her children as demonstrated by the out of Africa exodus. ... the other is the fact that white colonial capitalism continues to feed from the nutrients of the milk of mother Africa represented by the gold, diamond and platinum minerals for example. ..therefore the industrial development in Europe represents a fully nurtured white child produced by the milk nutrients of mother Africa. .

the seemingly neglected black child on the ground represent one, the powerless mother Africa rendered disabled and unable to rescue her children while busy feeding white supremacy. ..two, the child represents the neutral voiceless African children who continues to feel ashamed to vocally confront white supremacy about the endless ''sucking'' of his/her rightful nutrients, also the inability to caution mother Africa of the dangers of hope and endless humanity. ..it seems relevant also to see the dangers of the rainbow nation in this powerful iconography because if the African child's rightful interests are not taken care of by mother Africa in that context, the African child will remain neglected while whites rips the benefits off mother Africa's breast. .. ................
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charity begins at home mother Africa! .....

June 16 of and to the Africa centered youth

Written by Maleke Montshiwagae

June 16 has left some of us and yours truly in particular, with many questions regarding the education of the indigenous black child of the South of Africa.
One of the core issues that informed the June 16 uprising is reportedly the Bantu education act and language enforcement upon the black child, it took consciousness and practical action for the uprising to materialize! It does not occur to me, at least based on the information that I have been exposed to, that the students were at any point preoccupied with the exact geographical location in which their school facilities were located, they seem to have been more preoccupied with the question of enforced language and an act of Bantu education!
So based on this, yours truly finds it irrelevant for people to argue that being in a township school necessarily addresses the needs and requests for an Africa centered education, the evidence that this cannot be the case has been observed by yours truly when even the black teachers themselves launches laughter at the scripts of their very own learners’ performance on English and other English conducted technical subjects like mathematics and science! Their[teachers] concluding statements have generally tended to be that ‘’I have done’’ my best, one cannot blame them and one truly sympathizes with their somewhat peculiar conclusions, but at the same time one’s heart bleeds for the victim black learner casualties. At face value appearance, it seems to be true that both the black teacher and learner are at the mercy of each other under such brutal educational conditions as they both depend on the ‘’ability’’ of each other within a white web, not realizing that their respective vocabularies are the core sources of the dilemma as they suffer trying to construct into unnatural entities!


The situation is brutal in a sense that, when one truly understands and looks into the operational context of 1976 and its intended consequences, one quickly picks up that the memory and vocabulary of the African child were both intended to be natured into Africa centered production machines that were to produce Africa centered economies, history, culture, communities of higher moral fiber, spirituality, goods and services etc. and that is in essence what those conscious learners/students had in mind. So, whether one ends up in a dysfunctional black township school that teaches Eurocentric based education or ends up in a functional white school that has the same educational outcomes is immaterial since both institutions adds no value to and for the struggle for Africa centered education!


The June 16 uprising was not just about the production of a cognitive ‘’bunch’’ of black youth who eventually leave their black communities to go and serve the interest of the white class industrial world, only later to be given artificial praises as being the ones who have ‘’made it’’ and therefore should serve as an ‘’example’’ of what we as the ‘’other’’ black youth should strive for….how pathetic.

Africa centered education fused the maths, arts, sciences, languages, spirituality, culture, astronomy, history of oneself etc. to display the completeness of nature and its inherent interconnectivity and the importance of a collective and rock solid black communities, while in its ancient form it has displayed the triumph of human intellect over material things through things like Sphinx, pyramids and Memphite theologies that laid down the deeper philosophical foundations for the discoveries in particle physics for example, therefore, modern Africa centered education should not and cannot be seen as being short in modernity as this has already been addressed. What it should seek now is to produce modern African youth who’s ‘’educational DNA’’ is/will be Africa bound in order for him/her to resolve the issues of his/her own Africa! This youth thus educated will be able to reinterpret June 16 within its intended context by the then African youth.

June 16 in its brutal and raw truth must represent to this Africa centered youth, a simple fact that a black youth and child is none existent in both the theoretical and operational psychology of the white world, but the white eyes clearly contradicts this white psychology as the very white men forcefully and in a brutal manner, kills and murders the black youth in order to ensure that his psychological state and ‘’reality’’ materializes into a physically tangible outcome, with death of a black child as full prove! This understanding will ensure that the black youths will take seriously the question of Africa self-centeredness.


Black child you are on your own!