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[MUST WATCH] Chris Hani To Young Muzi Sikhakhane: Here’s R1500, Ntwanaka. Go Back To School; This ANC Will Not Always Be What You Guys Think It Is Adv. Sikhakhane In 🔥 Moya Conversation With One and Only, Amazing Podcaster @ntsikimazwai. A Conversation For History Books. “In fact, Chris Hani, after my — Aubrey Matshiqi and I were arrested for MK activities — At the end of it, Chris (Hani) actually told me ‘why don’t you go back to school… and he gave me some R1500. I don’t know what you’d do with that, but I did register. He had bailed me out… He said, next year, go back to school. This ANC will not always be what you guys think it is. [And] That’s how I went back to Wits.” “I’ve been witnessing this despiritualization of the African person… missionaries de-identifying an African and making us dislike ourselves; people think we have freedom but we do continue to dance to the rhythm of the status quo; the colonial project succeeds not because it had military power. Ir succeeds because it has one of the most powerful force on earth… To own somebody’s mind, to change their thinking; to make them believe, as most Black people believe, that they are inferior… they must; that they must live a life in which they must run away from Africaness, because they think it is inferior.” “If you really look at people who fight for power, it’s people with no professional options… it’s people to whom politics is not service. It’s another way of making money; it’s a job… We must be slightly sympathetic, because the type of activist you get when the reward is death and detention, is not the same as the type of activist you get when the reward is a tender and a nice job, and money… Activists have always been few.” “Even in law, we’ve not changed anything; we’ve just adapted to neoliberal notions of constitutionalism… Law students are activists when they are at law school, but their activism hardly outlast graduation. Go anywhere. Lawyers actually frown upon activism, but at law school they were activists. It’s because when they get out out of university… Law is a study that teaches you to conform, rather than to change; to critique. The ability to critique is left at law school… Once there’s money, etc., it teaches us to follow precedent.” “As educated as I am, I’ve learnt to respect, more deeply, people who didn’t go to (traditional/formal) school. I’ve learnt to appreciate my mother and those rural women and men, who didn’t go to school, because my interaction with educated people, as I do, everyday, leaves me depressed… It is the most educated that have been assimilated into whiteness. So much so, that they are unconscious about it; because it comes clothed as education, as sophistication. Post-colonial countries don’t move forward, because the so called enlightened are probably the most damaged human being — about who they are — we live our lives trying to demonstrate how un-African we are.” “That pattern continues, today. When you challenge whiteness, it’s Black people who feel embarrassed.” 🖇️ https://t.co/OF2Hxr75Qg —— Let’s Contribute, So Our Queen Can Continue Blessing Us With This Rich, Needed Content: “This is a self funded project, please do your bit? CA Ntsiki Mazwai Media Account number 630 392 398 92 Branch code 250 655 First National Bank or https://t.co/vsTrdorSjB”