Liteboho Mots'ekalle

[Liteboho Mots'ekalle @LitebohoMots]

Indulge my thoughts about this day published in @LsNewsday under pseudonym Likhapha Ntlo ea Lefu. A revolutionary Kwame Nkrumah and his generation gave us a blueprint. A foundation in the name of OAU/AU to steer the unity of Africans. With unity, we can destroy the inhumane

[Sizwe SikaMusi @SizweLo]

Many Africans are proud of Ethiopia for being the only African nation that was never colonised.

However, they rarely say anything about how when Ethiopia defeated European colonial invaders at the Battle of Adwa in 1896, the Ethiopian army was actually marching under the banner of the Christian Orthodox Church.

This was not even a result of modern European colonisation either, as Ethiopia converted to Christianity 1200 years before transatlantic slavery and 1500 years before Africa’s colonisation, around the same time the Roman Empire was only just beginning to tolerate the faith.
In fact, Coptic Christianity in Ethiopia and ancient Egypt developed entirely independently of European colonial influence.

The Nubian kingdoms of Sudan converted to Christianity in the 6th century AD, influenced by Egyptian Coptic and Ethiopian Christian missionaries. The resulting Nubian Christianity persisted for nearly 1000 years, only gradually giving way to Islam after the 13th-14th centuries.

It was actually Islam that prevented Ethiopia and Egypt from spreading Christianity across the Sahel and into West Africa.

It’s true that Western/Protestant Christianity spread through colonial missionary activity in Sub-Saharan Africa. In places like Nigeria, Kenya, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and South Africa, the modern religious landscape was shaped by European missionaries and colonial institutions. But that doesn’t take away from 1500 years of indigenous African Christianity.

So, while Christianity is not originally African, it’s also not originally European, having originated in the Levant in West Asia. In fact, large parts of Africa were Christian before many parts of northern and eastern Europe were.

So, when we focus on just one screenshot of Christianity’s spread by European colonisers as the whole story, it erases a rich chapter of African history while attempting to defend it.

The bigger picture is that there was a continuous tradition of African Christianity that existed for centuries as an African phenomenon, completely independent of Europe.

[Mzilikazi wa Afrika @IamMzilikazi]

❝If you want to destroy a country, you must first corrupt the youth, dump them in the abysmal sea of ignorance and pretend to be their life guard.
Encourage them to worship idiots as their idols, oppressors as their saviours and traitors of their revolution as heroes.❞ ~ Mzilikazi wa Afrika #WakeUpEverybody✊🏿

[Mbuyiseni Ndlozi @MbuyiseniNdlozi]

There is NO ONE who genuinely seeks to solve any problem with fellow Africans mobilises us based on tribalism or ethnic hatred:- such a person is cooking raw civil instability! They seek to ruin our country, not fix it!

We know this! We are students of HISTORY! This is how you get a country to FAIL! It is a recipe that imperialists have used for over 200 years, to render Africa completely unstable and unable to run its own affairs without violence and war! This is the only way they manage to extract all the riches found in our soil.

When will you OPEN your eyes: these are not people genuinely resolving an illegal immigration problem. These are people seeking to entrench ethnic nationalism & drive a wedge into the very unity of South Africa itself! They seek national instability!

Let me be CLEAR, as I have always been:

No one MUST ever support lawlessness. Immigration laws MUST be respected & imposed by law enforcement in our country without any fear or favour. In fact, there is no Pan-AFRICANISM in lawlessness. I have said this many times, even when we address large halls in the continent. That’s why Bushiri hates me!

What I will NEVER support is chasing black people on the streets like dogs whilst calling them garbage! No!

I will never agree that the cause of our chronic unemployment is other Africans from our continent. It’s a lie created by those who fail to run our economy, so that you don’t hold them accountable! They just collected 2 trillion in taxes: like every trillion they collected over years- it ends in corruption! TRILLIONS!

They are possibly the ones funding all these marches!

You all have forgotten every detail that comes out at Madlanga- your focus and rage is redirected away from these powerful people who ruin your lives everyday. SAPS generals exposed as the real drug lords, murderers and crooks!

Here is another painful FACT: these spaza shops we are being told to shutdown are in actual fact doing business with South Africans. Poor households generate more income by renting their back rooms and garages. It’s a MUTUAL ECONOMY! The point is to harness it through LAW and ORDER: not destroy it!

How do you march against people you opened your garage for as if you are marching against Apartheid? You were not forced to do so. It is because you correctly benefit & need more help in making it into an even more profitable investment!

Mind you, there is no white man that will ever leave Europe & rent from your township back rooms, or do business in your garage!

Incidentally, when a white man opens a business in the township, it’s called an investment, but when poor small business people from the continent do the same; it’s criminal!

This logic is driven by black self-hate: & it will lead to an even worse outcome- other black South Africans will start being told to only do business where they come from. Never to go into other provinces: or work in those provinces regardless of skills! Simply because of tribalism!

FACT: There is NO Pan-AFRICANISM in drugs and human trafficking. Whomsoever does this, African or not, MUST face the full might of the LAW!

I know you are frustrated! I know it is hard. I too have had a sister brutally murdered, stabbed to death in front of her 4 year old daughter by an undocumented Mozambican man. No one could help us bring him to justice. He simply fled!

If you ever doubt my appreciation of what that means. There it is. I told you! It was all over the news. I WILL NEVER say there should not be DOCUMENTATION of foreign nationals.

No single revolutionary leader who paid in blood for this country’s freedom will ever agree that when there is a problem amongst us, we must resort to hate and violence.

But these ones, who are mobilising today, are men of hate: they are already announcing what is next! It was always what was next! Ethnic domination! They must not succeed! https://t.co/WjmNHALyQK

[Mbuyiseni Ndlozi @MbuyiseniNdlozi]

For the sake of your children, who each morning must wake up and go to school, stop insulting education.

Somehow you have grown accustomed to insulting education as a way to make your arguments. Very tragic culture I must say!

There is no pride in being an ignorant people!

You can perfectly disagree with anyone without insulting education.

Why would you want to breed an education hating nation?

Unless of course, you are working with those who have benefited for centuries out of keeping Africans ignorant!

#MakingEducationFashionable

[Liteboho Mots'ekalle @LitebohoMots]

My Kenyan Professor used to say both heaven and hell are here on Earth. And we already live in those places. And today, I still find it very plausible.

[Sizwe SikaMusi @SizweLo]

We’re probably in hell already, our dumb asses not knowing

— Makaveli, 1996

[Liteboho Mots'ekalle @LitebohoMots]

For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much." Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton.

[Liteboho Mots'ekalle @LitebohoMots]

"The sound of the shot was heard by a neighbour, Mr. Michael Clarke, who investigated promptly and made the tragic discovery. The police were on the scene within a few minutes. On the table by the bed of the murdered man was found an unfinished manuscript on The Truth about

[Liteboho Mots'ekalle @LitebohoMots]

water runs through his fingers, nor stand too silent when the setting sun makes red the veld with fire. Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing, nor give too much of his heart to a mountain or a valley.

[Liteboho Mots'ekalle @LitebohoMots]

Happiness by Morgan Housel.

[Liteboho Mots'ekalle @LitebohoMots]

"The highest form of wealth is the ability to wake up every morning and say, “I can do whatever I want today.” People want to become wealthier to make them happier. Happiness is a complicated subject because everyone’s different. But if there’s a common denominator in happiness

[Liteboho Mots'ekalle @LitebohoMots]

—a universal fuel of joy—it’s that people want to control their lives. The ability to do what you want, when you want, with who you want, for as long as you want, is priceless. It is the highest dividend money pays." The Psychology of Money Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed and

[Liteboho Mots'ekalle @LitebohoMots]

@mas_lvl Hello Lily😂

[Liteboho Mots'ekalle @LitebohoMots]

"A LOVE LETTER TO THE BLACKMAN WHO FATHERED ME

...I appreciate and love that I can talk to you about work, politics, career and almost all sorts of things as an adult. Even when I censor some topics because intimacy does not mean all-access, I love that I have you as my Daddy.

[Liteboho Mots'ekalle @LitebohoMots]

An excerpt from Reflecting Rogue: Inside The Mind of a Feminist by Pumla Dineo Gqola. I am always excited to read Prof Gqola's work. And this letter to her father matters to me.

[Liteboho Mots'ekalle @LitebohoMots]

and for all the work you did to make sure that for every minute I have been alive I would know that you would always love me unconditionally and that I mattered. I am proud of the Blackman you were and are..."