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!

Superstition according to who?

Written by Maleke Montshiwagae

One of the difficulties in the minds of indigenous black people that are in an oppressed state of functioning is that, the mind finds itself in a highly conflicting situation whose dynamics are regulated by the type of education being fed into it to an extent that when this particular mind eventually settles and is declared educated, it is when it functions within the perimeters, climate and most importantly it is when it exhibits the characteristics similar to those of white Europeans.. .

in other words, when the mind of a black man is a full clone of that of the West! ... ..
the consequence under these circumstances and state of mind is that, the black man of Africa is forced to adopt to the so called linear thinking of the type encouraged by the European enlightenment and renaissance, which is the type embedded in the European education system being fed into us. The enlightenment preferred ''reason'' over superstition which was associated with Africans, but by now we should know that Africans had a dual approach to knowledge and therefore structured knowledge was there before the arrival of our white children upon our shores, the religious texts Papyrus, the shabaka stone and Timbuktu manuscripts are quick examples! Anyway, we again see that superstition in this case is defined within the confines of the European mind in that they[Europeans] reasoned that there was no rationale in it and therefore, no meaningful knowledge could be sourced out of it!

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but to the African mind proper, that which is not contaminated by foreign education systems and interpretations that is, the understanding is that ''spirituality just like gravity is discovered and not created by man'' and therefore, the first truly new and radically transcendent notion to arise in human consciousness since the burial of the dead and the mysteries of priesthood was the notion of resurrection and reincarnation'' which are said to have germinated among the people of the great lakes and upper Nile in Africa. The essential religious texts that deal with these notions are captured in the Egyptian ''Book of the dead'' which is more than 3000 years older than Christ! These texts deal with the dead and their new life as spirit in the realm beyond and the notion of the divine intellectual power or God.

So, according to Edward Bynum the earliest spiritual intuitions of eternal life lived in the heart of this religion that inspired human civilization and over the eons went through many transformations from its seed idea brought down the Nile Valley. The presence of ''advanced and abstract'' intellectual and spiritual ideas in the core of this African creation was both an annoyance and perceived anomaly to most European scholars as they could not believe that black Africans could think to that deeper spiritual level, I suppose this was due to their racist convictions.

Nevertheless, Christians in Egypt or Copts as they were known never succeeded in divesting themselves of the ''superstitious'' and weird mythological conceptions which they inherited from their heathen ancestors. these heathen beliefs and formulations had a profound effect on the actual development of Christianity, Islam and Judaism and they are echoed in certain doctrines of ''Tibetan book of the dead'' compiled millennia later but taken by racist Eurocentric scholars to falsely be an advanced spiritual text.

from this above here, we see that the earliest ''abstract intellectual'' development of the African mind transcends the boundaries and limitations imposed by linear thinking or so called reasoning! It is out of nonlinear creative intelligence of the African mind that some deeper order unfolds, and out of that unfolding, light is brought to the human race in a form of a complex knowledge system which white Europe relegated as ''superstition'' purely because they could not understand it even though out of it was birthed various religious doctrines appreciated across the globe to this day.
When we discuss African renaissance, these are the sort of things we as blacks must reignite!

Bring back superstitious African education!!!

[the status of a ''KAFFIR'' in a neo-apartheid moment]

Written by Maleke Montshiwagae

at first I was tempted to assume that I could right away write my way into this piece without having to go through the pain and suffering of explaining what a kaffir is, this is largely because of one of the writing tips John Steinbeck offered that when writing ''one should forget about the general audience as it does not exist, one should focus or pick one reader or one imagined reader''. Had I opted for this tip route, my natural selection would have been the pre 1994 reader which would certainly be an escape valve from the ''kaffir'' definition pain. However, I find myself trapped by the presence in the read list of my work, of the so called ''born frees''? I therefore find myself forced to endure the ''kaffir'' pain definition, which I deliberately chose to leave to the thought!

sometime back when I began venturing into the mission of writing for the black agenda, I related a story relating to a real event witnessed by yours truly which I find relevant at this moment as I believe will set the tone as I attempt to examine the ''status'' of what conservative white Afrikaner people vocally and passionately referred to as a ''kaffir''.

the dictionary tells us that a ''kaffir'' is any black person and inferior for that matter!

the event went like this: it included 4 characters, two were white Afrikaner teenagers who seemed to be in a sexual relationship in how they were intimate and two were these young black kids whom were evidently different in age. The white teenager couple had come to watch movies at a local cinema in town when they witnessed a physical fight taking place between these two young black kids, these black kids where what are referred to as street kids or homeless kids. In seeing this incident or fighting occurring in front of her, the white teenager girl shouted with a clear voice of concern, while her boyfriend just stood there as if surprised at her concern, she shouted to the older homeless black kid: ''los die kaffirtjie'' translated, ''leave the young kaffir''!

the young Afrikaner teenager's response to the situation calls to question many things, although her inner humane feelings compels her to sympathize with a ''kaffirtjie'' and requires her to intervene, her operative white psychological status contradicts her ''humaneness''! Put simply, what the teenager sees in the end are two ''dogs'' not different to any other animals fighting and therefore, the girl to me represents the kind of contradictions inherent in the white world and how it sees a ''kaffir'' in a nutshell.

With this contradiction in mind, the Verwoerdian social engineering mechanism saw African people exclusively living in the township projects away from the whites only couzy, less noisy, less dangerous, less filthy, non-bucket toilet system, non-rat infested suburbs. These were the physical geographical barriers as laid out in the strategic apartheid mechanism of the ''honourable'' Dr Verwoerd, may his soul burn eternally in hell. These were the race based barriers that existed in then apartheid, the neo-apartheid barriers still resembles exactly that, with an addition of a ''kaffir'' being promoted into a ''deserving'' socioeconomic informed status to can cross the geo barriers to ''finally'' stay and settle in a non-bucket system white suburb. This seems to have been the goal of a ''kaffir'' all along disguised today as a better life by virtue of a white environment.

the outcome of this material based ''kaffir'' promotion is a creation of layers of ''kaffirs'' resembling a class production project, which works to disassemble the unity of black people. We are seeing tendencies similar to the psychological status of the white Afrikaner teenager emerging, where the ''promoted kaffir'' is completely dislocated from his/her black community both physically, culturally and way of thinking and the only time he/she encounters black people is when going to the township projects to give away food parcels, old clothes, to preach the word of God because now he perceives his very own people as not religiously transformed and therefore being barbaric, or even when going to drop the black nanny. The promoted ''kaffir'' just like liberal white people who uses class analysis as a defence mechanism to protect white privileges also now blames the ''unfortunate'' situation of black people on the devil, as if poverty was an inherent character of mother nature, that for example all the thugs roaming the streets and the many other social ills clouding black communities are a manifest of the works of the devil without recognising it as the outcome of blacks being viewed as kaffirs and therefore subhuman! These ''new kaffirs'' mingles with their white friends and colleagues in agreement that black people must ''work hard'' and that blacks are generally lazy as can be seen in what is happening in the townships, they fail to give a raw background and truth to their white counterparts with respect to these false views in fear of tearing down the aspirations of the Mandelaic rainbow nation. Suddenly the ''promoted kaffir'' has the privilege and enjoys the benefits of swimming together with whites in exclusive beaches, speaking good English around in local malls, eating fancy food in white restaurants, with its kids being schooled in white schools etc. and this brings a particular sense of achievement and pride it seems to boost about when being around township projects and social circles. It is hurting that blacks do not seem to invest much time and energy to infiltrate and to asset their cultural position within a white world, they have rather entered the white world as ''promoted kaffirs'' whom the structural white web views in accordance with the contractions represented by the Afrikaner teenager.

In contrast to this, we do not see any whites moving into black areas, this is seen as improbable and unreasonable an expectation, the only time we see them in black townships is when going around in a tour bus taking pictures of the very conditions they created which they now see as a tourism attraction where they go and ''see'' kaffirs, more like in a zoo.

what is clear from this is that both the psychological state of the white world and that of the ''promoted kaffir'' must be altered in order to see the black people not as ''kaffirs'' but equal humans in synchronization with the feelings of a teenager Afrikaner white girl. Both the state of the mind and that of humaneness must speak to one other in terms of the viewing and treatment afforded to black people.

like I said, the situation that produces ''different'' kaffirs is synonym to the class production scenario where perhaps these promoted kaffirs feels that their material gains and privilege of physically existing in a white world are threatened by the fundamental needs of the township project kaffirs who are unfortunately left behind because they did not ''work hard'' as they would say, hence they do not see the need to represent a wholistic story of the black people in those comfortable environments.

so the situation has managed to allow the black people to see his very own as ''kaffirs'' while at the same time behaving as such to the expectations of the white effects. ..

Dr Verwoerd ''must'' be laughing from his grave! the evil ''spiritual'' guidance of the ''honourable'' Dr Verwoerd manifesting as minor colonies in both the mental compartments of the black people and their daily spacial locations and activities in a neo-apartheid arrangement is evident. Verwoerd's ambitions seems to find strength and to be based on the notion that ''all that you need to do is take care of their minds and everything else will fall into place'', so the brain, the mind and the consciousness of my people seems to be ''taken care of'' since the evidence is that it is on auto pilot with respect to it being a metaphoric Verwoerd plane heading for a disastrous crash with black passengers unconscious of the fact! .....it looks like this plane is indeed falling into place as our minds are already taken care of. ...... we being haunted by the Verwoerd ghost. ..

We do not need ''kafferboeties''....but a genuine human treatment

The black ‘’being’’ being left out. .

Written by Maleke Montshiwagae

There is a lot of noise being made around current political developments with SONA in the mix, rightfully so and it should be so. . But less noise is made about the people central to all of the noises, and those are the ones trapped in the black grammar of suffering, the black people that is! . . .
We are very good indeed at understanding constitutional processes, parliamentary decorum, procedures and processes of how the honourable should be treated and respected etc. etc. that too is ok you know

But how many of us understand the procedure to attaining of the black people and I mean here, the wretch of the earth, the "black human" status?
how many of us understands the constitution of a "black being", in other words what constitutes it as opposed to what constitutes "black the man"?.. .
just like the SACP's misunderstanding of the black program in that, they seem to imagine the political "black object" as having been ripped off labour power, little do they know that no, the black object has been ripped off its "black human" status! . .. It’s not surprising that their centrality is black the worker, rather than black the human or the being! They do not seem to differentiate these two together with their mavarara friends. They are probably blinded by their Marxist obsession as opposed to if they were to be black conscious! . it's really not surprising at all .

Fanon in his writings speaks of race as a vertical distribution of values within humanity in which "black the human" is absent or does not exist, and black is a sentient placed below. . He [Fanon] further continues to say that if blacks were to acquire these values, humanity would expand into a shapeless, worthless and incoherent mass. In other words, for human relations as it stands to continue to be valid, blacks must remain below this vertical distribution of human values as a dehumanised entity! Therefore, blacks faces two very important unethical structures, one being the political economy where the "other" is the worker and the other one being humanity, where the "other" is the black.

Our current government seems to concern itself with maintaining of the unethical structure of political economy where jobs are the main focus and talk of the SONA, where infrastructural developments focuses on creating more workers the "other" in which the black is interchanged with the worker! . . Under these circumstances, the unethical structure of humanity is untouched, perhaps for the fear of expanding the whole of humanity into a shapeless, worthless and incoherent mass as outlined above. . . the black grammar of suffering must maintain human relational symmetry here! . .


This approach by the government of the day is actually an anti-black approach because it actually promotes structural racism.

Steve Biko assists us in his analysis of racism as follows: that racism is discrimination and subjugation:

Discrimination having to do with exclusion of the black, while subjugation has to do with submission enforced over 500years, power and control of the oppressed. Therefore racism is not only a prejudice issue but has a lot to do with human power relations, which is how whiteness was enforced to eliminate blackness.

The only way to can restore the black to a human recognition level would be to collapse the anti-black structure, the structure that thrives on the basis of the absence of the black human, and that structure is the anti-black-white-world structure that is so obsessed with capita relations that the fundamental human relations is ignored.

This, as one writer indicates, should not be the redistribution of capital like the ANC did with their RDP programme and many others, it should be a violent collapse of capita relations and refocusing on uplifting the black into the black human status.

I'm not talking here of assimilation of black into whiteness through white culture and values, it should be antiracism not non-racialism preached by liberals and Mandela. Because it is said that non-racialism is bringing together of superiority and inferiority complexes into an integrated complex that essentially maintains the status quo under white supremacy structure. .. Therefore antiracism is the way to go.... Once the anti-black structure is destroyed, we can then start from scratch.

Until this can be achieved, even our liberal constitution will talk of human rights as opposed to a human discourse that attempts to restore black the human!

Our battle is not a human rights battle; it's a battle to restore black humans into the vertical distribution of human values!
Mandela misled us with his statement: "I fought against black domination and white domination"

Black domination cannot exist under the context of colonialism and apartheid!

The dilemma as it evolves

Written by Maleke Montshiwagae

I have been watching with interest the racial issues in some selected schools around the country, or should I call them isolated racial incidents? regarding what has been termed racist attitudes and acts towards black learners in formally whites only schools.

One has to keep in mind that we are only dealing with reported physical incidents here! What about the unreported mental violence against these kids?
Because Eurocentric "quality" education has become a rare commodity within environments of the black grammar of suffering, blacks find themselves roaming the white streets in search of this commodity! The ability to roam these white streets is informed also by the immediate socio-economic status of the various black families; therefore it is not an organic integration gesture/act. It depends on whether one can or cannot, given the money or its lack thereof!

The adequate understanding of aspects of racism leads us to understand that racism has a lot to do with power and control over resources, which explains why blacks find themselves wanting to locate the physical bodies of their children within white educational super structures, but the reverse does not happen where whites would roam black streets looking for quality education! this truly only happened when Greeks went to black Egypt to learn from what they knew, at the time when we wrote medical textbooks about 6000 years ago or about 3000 BCE, or when various people went to the universities of Mali in the Timbuktu city! the current lack of this reciprocity places emphasis on the need to stress that blacks taking their kids to white schools is not an organic flow of integration, but a clear cut indication of a deficiency in the resource ["quality education"] informed by anti-black racism of resource imbalances.

The other aspect of the dilemma in these racism talk shops and acts is that, our very black kids whom are being physically forced to be present in these white educational realities, they remain absent as African beings and black humans because the very educational commodity being fed to them after it having being desperately chased by their not mentally liberated parents, produces and reproduces white clones who themselves will perpetuate white culture and way of thinking. The black child's mental development and emotional status remains an experimental black ball in a pool game in which she/he watches as a game of racist "anti-black" resource imbalances randomly plays out, only to be the outstanding casualty at the end of the game to be dumped into a hole by a white ball! This white ball representing the white structural power that is in-charge throughout the game!

Therefore the point at hand here is that, racism in these schools revolves around the fact that black absence is necessary for a structural continuation of the anti-black world, if blackness won't be absent in physical terms then it will be absent in mental developmental terms!


That’s why they physically attack us, or they've setup their white centred education that produces white clones that will fit into the white cultural institutions [universities] and eventually feed into their Eurocentric industrial complexes.

The question then is, what are we fighting for? Is it not time to question about the "whens" of African centred education that will define us?
Even if we are to agree that acquiring that educational commodity located in a white school means something to us, when then are we going to request for both our mental presence in there and "being" presence?

For as long as we cannot deal and confront these and other questions, structural positionality will forever determine the position of a black man in an intact anti-black-white-world.

African Culture verses Spirituality

Written by Maleke Montshiwagae

The system of white supremacy and black inferiority through tools such as Christianity has been successful in rendering the memory of the black people incapable of remembering that spirituality is a crucial component of the African culture.

The South African pocket Oxford dictionary defines culture as an intellectual and artistic achievement or expression. With this definition in mind, the writings in the corpus hermeticum and hermetic traditions illustrates that the Egyptian hermetic writers put on paper the experience of the interior liberated knowledge, which one writer G.R.S Mead understood to be the distillations of profound spiritual and psychological experiences. It is important to note that these were not philosophical tracts but a communication of interior and visionary reality. The hermetic writings did not have allocated writers and hence were all anonymous because they believed that anything written through this inspiration of true wisdom was actually written by the divine intellectual power or the God of wisdom, and also that personal credit was not in line with the pursuit of spiritual matters. This was the culture of the immemorial hermetic communities in Egypt, Africa. An example of these African writings is captured below:


''Upon a time while my mind was meditating on the things that are, my thought was raised to a great height, while the physical senses of my body were held back—just as are the senses of men who are heavy with sleep after a large meal, or from fatigue of body.

I thought I heard a Being more than vast—in size beyond all bounds—called out my name and say: "What wouldst thou hear and see, and what hast thou in mind to learn and know?"

And I said: "Who art thou?"

He answered: "I am Shepherd of Men, Mind of all-Masterhood; I know what thou desirest and I am with thee everywhere."
And I replied: "I long to learn the things that are, and comprehend their nature, and know God.

This (I said) is what I desire to hear.

"He answered me: "Hold in thy mind all thou wouldst know, and I will teach thee."

And with these words His aspect changed; and straightway, in the twinkling of an eye, all things were opened to me. And I saw a limitless Vision: all things turned into Light—sweet, joyous Light. And I became transported as I gazed....(Poemandres, v.1-4)''


Pocket Oxford dictionary continues to define spiritualism as a belief in, and supposed practice of communication with the dead, especially through mediums. One of the core understandings by Africans now and in ancient times is that, life is composed of the physical and spiritual realms in which the spirit continues to live eternally after death or in the afterlife. This point is clearly brought through in the hermetic writings were the understanding was that, the physical body formed a limitation to the spirit and which leads to unconsciousness, the body as a limitation forms a confinement from which the spirit must be liberated.


It is therefore not surprising to find African spiritual guardians and graduates like the Sangomas in the black communities being able to communicate with our ancestors in the spiritual realm into which their[ancestors] spirits have been liberated, this ability is made possible and imparted by the intellectual divine power or God. If Sangomas were to write down their interior and visionary experiences, they would produce writings similar to the hermetic writings and I would imagine that our Christian faith fellows would also refer to those writings as God inspired, which in fact would be the case as that is exactly how African culture understands and declares it!

It is also an established fact that these wisdom manifestations were the true inspirations to the bible even though not acknowledged as such for reasons of oppression of the black race by hiding away this truth from them. The transferring of this knowledge to the Bible is well known, this happened because the Jews spent a significant amount of time in Egypt and adopted these writings to suit their culture but now presenting it as if it was theirs. The Romans and Arabs were too exposed to this great knowledge, the Greeks even considered the black Egyptians the fathers of their world.

It is therefore evident that spirituality emanates and inherently manifest from the African culture, it cannot be possible to separate the two.

''Value'' of an African woman

Written by Maleke Montshiwagae

as a first charge, one would say that if the African narrative was an unedited motion picture, then the organic role of an African woman would play itself out before our eyes right from the African creation myth allegories to date, but by now there has been many editors to the ''movie'' of an African woman, it is this edition that I attempt to deconstruct and reconstruct in order to reflect the original script of the African woman!

there is a concept referred to as the ''concept of progress'' which is mainly used in the racist scientific propaganda aimed at belittling the African efforts upon the human civilization story, for example, the concept of a calculator, one hardly ever hears that the first calculator was the bone calculator that was found in the border cave between South Africa and Zwaziland in the Lobombo mountains and is measured to be 35 000 years old! It is said that the Lobombo bone calculator had a series of 29 notches and is believed to indicate that our grandmother ancestors used it to monitor their menstrual cycle, which could also mean that they were the first mathematicians as reported. So, in the concept of progress, only the modern electronic calculator is recognized without realizing [and this is done deliberately] that the initial antique concept by our grandmother ancestors matters the most and therefore the electronic version represents a stage in development not necessarily the genesis! .... these are the sort of things and distortions that happens when the African narrative is related in the absence of Africans.

Now, the value, character and role of African women has been distorted and compromised under these sort of concepts, the significant one being the neo-universalist concept of Karl Marx in feminism. Molefi Kete Asante assists us at this point when he mentions that: ''Marx's contribution to the discourse on culture was the debunking of culture, in particular the destruction of African cultural values by asserting that they really masked the reality of power that was based on the structure of society. This new approach became the European culture and spawned many liberation theories that had the effect of masking the new domination of Europe''. From Molefi's take, there are two crucial points I want to use as ''stepping stones'' and that is, society and liberation theories. One of Karl Marx's liberation theories, Marxist-Feminism aimed at liberating women is therefore based on the characteristics of a European society and is dumped at us under the guise of universalism that makes an assumption that even Africans understood culture in the same way as Marx and actually neglects the characteristics of African society!

Karl Marx's view derives from the European enlightenment which values reason over superstition as they [Europeans] saw Africa. In their reason, they saw gender in their society as a sexual differential with white men dominating; this was a patriarchal white man supremacy structure of society which also dominated in the bourgeoisie economy! It is out of this understanding of gender that Marx's liberation theory of Marxist-feminism cannot be relevant to the African women. The African gender understanding in our classical society was never based and sensitive to sexuality, gender was rather understood as a function of historical moment and time. In other words, at one particular time you could see certain elements in a woman which you might not see in the next moment!... so depending on the circumstances, certain characteristics of a black woman might show up. Good examples are the uprising of black woman in South Africa in opposing the impositions from the apartheid regime and how our grandmother ancestors collectively went through the hardships of slavery. These are examples of emergence of particular characteristics of a woman at a particular time as required by circumstances.

Building upon this and to bring the historical perspective of the character of black women in classical African society, one taps into the allegorical creation myth of Egypto-Nubian. The Nubians had in mind the concept of the ''divine feminine'' from which the Egyptians developed their creation myth, without too much detail, there are two important characters in the allegorical myth and that is Osiris and Isis [goddess] who are husband and wife respectively. Osiris was cut into pieces during a fight and Isis together with her sister Nephasis, collected and put together Osiris's pieces in order to bring him back to life''.. from this, we can see that in the first instance, two sisters come together in sisterhood and in the second instance the wife supports her defeated man in order to bring him back to life again! .. so it is clear that in the mind of an African, the complementary role of a woman arises right from creation and plays itself into the resultant nature of the African society in which gender is not pathological. The implications and significance of the bringing together of the pieces of Osiris by the goddess Isis is that it extended into the uprising of mummification in the black Kemet [Egypt] society, which represented the physical expression of the belief in the afterlife.

So next you go to the grave to burry a loved one, you must remember that even though not mummified, you are expressing the act of the Goddess Isis and you are recognising the critical contributions of a woman!

So in light of the current dynamics regarding empowering women, empowerment must not be understood by our black women as overcoming gender differentials particular in our African communities because it leads to frictions between black men and women. The empowerment should rather be understood as overcoming the oppressive gender notions of patriarchal white supremacy society; the reflections on what African society was like would be a step towards restoration of what has already been there, that is, strong and intelligent black woman.


Hotep!!!!!