Jaki Seroke 1

Pan Africanist, socialist and democratic

[Marjan Boelsma @MarjanBoelsma]

Today I lost my dear and inspiring friend and comrade Gladys Qabukile Nzimande-Tsolo (1940-2023). RIP. For many years the Azania Komitee worked closely together Gladys and her husband Nyakane Tsolo. Pic.: Gladys Tsolo campaigning for Upington 14, 1990 J. Bosch College, Den Bosch

[Jaki Seroke 1 @1Seroke]

@FredKhumalo @Umuzites @iKontinental Congratulations, Fred.

[Lindokuhle Patiwe @LPatiwe]

Very few have lived a life of dedication to the African struggle and all the oppressed people of the world. You served your people with a dedication very few can master.
Hamba kahle Nobhala.
Tell Sobukwe and Pokela, that their movement is taking shape.
Lala ngoxolo poqo 🕊️

[Relebone Rirhandzu eAfrika is a prayer 🙏 @Relebone_]

Donato Francisco Mattera, lovingly known as Bra Don, was born in 1935 in the Western native township of South Africa (present-day Westbury).
His grandparents raised him in #Sophiatown.
He was a poet, journalist, activist, author and playwright.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

🇺🇸ROBERT MCNAMARA: "General, I want us to examine our mindsets, and to look at specific instances where we––Hanoi and Washington––may each have been mistaken, have misunderstood each other, such as in the Tonkin Gulf episode we’ve been discussing."

🇻🇳VO NGUYEN GIAP: "I don’t believe we misunderstood you. You were the enemy; you wished to defeat us––to destroy us. So we were forced to fight you––to fight a 'people’s war' to reclaim our country from your neoimperialist ally in Saigon––we used the word 'puppet,' of course, back then––and to reunify our country."

🇺🇸ROBERT MCNAMARA: "General, I am interested––and my U.S. colleagues are interested––in putting a claim such as you have just made to the test at our conference. Were we––was I, was Kennedy, was Johnson—a 'neoimperialist' in the sense you are using the word? I would say absolutely not! Now, if we can agree on an agenda focused on episodes like Tonkin Gulf, where we may have misunderstood each other, then––"

🇻🇳VO NGUYEN GIAP: "Excuse me, but we correctly understood you––what you were doing in the Tonkin Gulf. You were carrying out sabotage activities to create a pretext that would allow you to take over the war from the Saigon government, which was incompetent."

🇺🇸ROBERT MCNAMARA: "That is totally wrong, General. I assure you: There was no such intent. None. But this is why we need to reexamine each other’s misunderstandings––for two reasons. First, we need to identify missed opportunities; and second, we need to draw lessons which will allow us to avoid such tragedies in the future."

🇻🇳VO NGUYEN GIAP: "Lessons are important. I agree. However, you are wrong to call the war a 'tragedy'––to say that it came from missed opportunities. Maybe it was a tragedy for you, because yours was a war of aggression, in the neocolonialist 'style,' or fashion, of the day for the Americans. You wanted to replace the French; you failed; men died; so, yes, it was tragic, because they died for a bad cause. But for us, the war against you was a noble sacrifice. We did not want to fight the U.S. We did not. But you gave us no choice. Our people sacrificed tremendously for our cause of freedom and independence. There were no missed opportunities for us. We did what
we had to do to drive you and your 'puppets'––I apologize, Mr. McNamara, for again using the term 'puppet'––to drive you and your puppets out. So I agree that you missed opportunities and that you need to draw lessons. But us? I think we would do nothing different, under the circumstances."

🇺🇸ROBERT MCNAMARA: "Well, General, I hope you’ll agree to put issues like that––our mindsets, yours and ours––on the agenda."

🇻🇳VO NGUYEN GIAP: "Yes, of course. We have nothing to fear."

[Jaki Seroke 1 @1Seroke]

Uncle Ho led the most famous and glorious victory by the Vietnamese people against a superpower on mosquito legs.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

🇻🇳PRESIDENT HO CHI MINH:

"If two stones hit at each other, both would break. The same with two eggs. If a hard thing hits at a soft thing, one of the two would remain intact. This means that both sides must use stratagems. France has tanks and artillery, then we destroy the highways. France uses planes, then we dig trenches. France wants to win a quick victory, then we wage a long drawn-out war. In this way we will certainly win."

"The enemy position is like fire, our position is like water. Water will certainly prevail over fire."

[Jaki Seroke 1 @1Seroke]

Sibeko placed the PAC in the progressive international world and made revolutionary Pan-Africanism a people-driven project. Viva, Maphumzana. Viva, Walter Rodney.

[Nkululeko Somhlahlo @NkululekoSomhl1]

We remember Cde David Sibeko. We commemorate Walter Rodney!! ✋🏾

[Dwayne Omowale @DOmowale]

The Mau Mau struggle for liberation wasn’t just a struggle to free Kenya. Dedan Kimathi wrote a letter to Kwame Nkrumah and W.E.B. Du Bois to inform them that he was fighting for Africa’s liberation.

[Marjan Boelsma @MarjanBoelsma]

For Padmore, the “Negro toilers,” oppressed along both class and race lines, would be a central plank in a future world revolution. From Marx, he borrowed an aphorism (..): “Labor in the white skin cannot free itself while labor in the black is enslaved.”
https://t.co/BFbM6pZQfC

[Jaki Seroke 1 @1Seroke]

Why I am Boycotting Uganda | by Mukoma Wa Ngugi https://t.co/OpumeFDl9F

[Jaki Seroke 1 @1Seroke]

African Liberation Day symposium at the Moses Molelekwa Art Centre, Thembisa, yesterday. I'm with Prof John Tremble of the A-APRP. Ready for Revolution.

[Jaki Seroke 1 @1Seroke]

@AnnikalangaY We, the legion of Makana Island, when we meet Bra Paul in social circumstances, always ask, 'Unjani uMakoti wethu?' Stay sane and safe.

[Jaki Seroke 1 @1Seroke]

@mfullard2 All strength to the Task Team. Your hard work is not appreciated enough. Thanks for letting us know, Comrade Madeleine.

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

Mahatma Gandhi the Racist. While living in South Africa, Mahatma Gandhi described black Africans as “savage,” “raw” and living a life of indolence and nakedness.

•He routinely expressed "disdain for Africans," and he also campaigned relentlessly to prove to the British rulers that the Indian community in South Africa was superior to native black Africans.

•One of the first battles Gandhi fought after coming to South Africa was over the separate entrances for whites and blacks at the Durban post office.

•Gandhi obiected that Indians were "classed with the natives of South Africa," who he called the kaffirs, and demanded a separate entrance for Indians.

•In a petition letter in 1895, Gandhi also expressed concern that a lower legal standing for Indians would result in degenerating "so much so that from their civilised habits, they would be degraded to the habits of the aboriginal Natives, and a generation hence, between the progeny of the Indians and the Natives, there will be very little difference in habits, and customs and thought."

[Jaki Seroke 1 @1Seroke]

Howard Zinn is or of my favorite researchers and historians. Try diving into this chapter on women.

women's silent sadness -- 4/17/23 https://t.co/e5xztsMIv0

[Jaki Seroke 1 @1Seroke]

A point well made by bell hooks.

[Jaki Seroke 1 @1Seroke]

@Menumental @MyPAConline @Powerfm987 @FaithMangope As they say: "umona we jealous!" Sobukwe was in detention without trial at Robben Island maximum prison. He was a prisoner of conscience. Mandela was doing life.

[Jaki Seroke 1 @1Seroke]

@Menumental @MyPAConline @Powerfm987 @FaithMangope Sobukwe could not defend himself. That's what makes Mandela's underbelly jabs so unfair and reflects on his shady character. I agree with you.

[Jaki Seroke 1 @1Seroke]

Comrade John Tremble of the A-APRP, an international Pan-Africanist solidarity political party at the Sharpeville Day commemoration ceremony. Izwelethu iAfrika!

[Zakes Mda @ZakesMda]

https://t.co/5nag9mq3c8
This is the setting of my novel, Wayfarers’ Hymns. Some of the people who feature in this documentary (eg Mosotho Chakela, Mahlanya) also feature in my novel as themselves. The Accordion Wars: Famo music and gang wars https://t.co/5nag9mq3c8 via @YouTube