Independent Historian Malesela

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@HistorySAZAR Embellished struggle credentials

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Yet again, the commemoration of the Soweto Revolt has come and gone, and no one remembers that Dr. Melville Edelstein was brutally murdered shortly after Hector Pietersen was shot and killed. Edelstein's murder has been completely erased from historical record. Why?

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@MxolisiBob Their social, economic and political structures may have been stable. However, this assertion is consistently being criticized as a romanticization of idyllic and immutable pre-colonial Africa.

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@MxolisiBob The idea of "fully functional nation states" is intriguing. The centralization of the social product, with an illusive, frequently unfulfilled promise of its equitable redistribution occurs in nation states. The obverse is being grounded in collectivist logic.

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@AfricaisBlack And what about the Ngoye massacre of 1983? It set the I.F.P. on this blood-drenched trail in a quest to position itself as a factor in national politics.

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Khotso Seatlholo was "the poisoned arrowhead of the liberation struggle. He believed that no liberation struggle formation can be taken seriously if it disappears from the masses for a decade and a half. Within 5 years he was back in the country and was defanged.

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@EDAyandaDlodlo SAYRCO was a student/youth movement in exile seeking to be distinct and autonomous from the exiled A.N.C. and P.A.C. By the time Seatlholo left the country in 1976, he was already committed to the S.A.Y.R.C.O. project as he believed the A.N.C. was defunct and the PAC was dead.

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@SizweLo Has this moron ever heard of the semester system and how effective it was used in "bush universities" between 1978 and 1993 in particular? This was at the height of apartheid when passing exams was not a test of academic and intellectual prowess but of endurance.

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@HermanoMotheo I never place myself at the centre of a discourse. I maybe an ideologue but I also have a history of actual engagement in the liberation movement. The only moral proclivity I ever had was a quest for Black emancipation. We can argue what the content of "Black emancipation" is.

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@phethani4 At Wits they stood him up as a straw man only to beat him down and raise E. P. Thompson.

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@HermanoMotheo Few people I have encountered understand this simple TRUTH. I find your grasp of the matter laudable and I do not mean to patronize.

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@HermanoMotheo And when David Sibeko was poised to lift them from the morass Potlako Leballo had consigned them to, they assassinated him. They never recovered from that. But have you wondered why Tambo ordered the assassination of Tennyson Makiwane in Transkei in 1980?

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@HermanoMotheo Unauthorized? Who was supposed to "authorize" the lynchings to make them ideologically and ethically palatable? Tambo? Hani? Mbeki? And do you also know about the lynchings in Angola in 1984? Were they also engineered by the apartheid state?

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@HermanoMotheo Every aspect of the mass mobilization of 1983 to 1994 by MDM was a horror show in the quest for Black emancipation. It was a mass movement in which non-Africans set the agenda and Blacks (Africans) were both foot soldiers and victims of the violence tearing communities apart.

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@HermanoMotheo If you think the anti-Black thrust that characterized the popular violence (Black-on-Black) of 1984 to 1993 was a liberation war then you are misguided.

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@valavoosh This would never be contemplated in respect of the over 90 POQO operatives sent to the gallows at around the same time.

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@NorthWesTimes Now that it is 50 years since the Soweto uprising, Credo Mutua's real experience of the historical moment requires to be revisited and reexamined. As things stand, it is riddled with distortions and exposes the limitations and pitfalls of memory as historical record.

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@gabisto169 @PhilMphela It is significant that Sarafina is one of the projects that Angus Gibson was involved in. So this paradigm-tweaking exercise of a Black radical moment into something imprecise is to be expected.

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@gabisto169 @PhilMphela True.