PUBLICATION ALERT📢🚨
I am super thrilled to announce that my very first academic article (the first of many to come) has been published by the African Journal of Primary Healthcare and Family Medicine.
“In a short time, we've seen cancellations in tourism. This hurts the hospitality industry, in trade, and in many things. We are also seeing a decline in trade within the region.”
-This documentary exposes the impact of the recent “Foreigners-Must-Go” protests in South Africa.
Happy Pride, Mariah & Lambily! 🏳️🌈 Celebrating Pride and the music that helped so many of us find ourselves. 🩷
'𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗕𝘂𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗹𝘆 𝗘𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗰𝘁'
How a clothes shop, a radio station, and 'Dreamlover' - changed the trajectory of a Lamb's life...forever!! 🦋
(A true story)
#mariahcarey #lambily #pride
I’ve been reading a lot about Simon Nkoli of late. His coming out as gay during his imprisonment as part of the Delmas 22 in the 80s helped shift the ANC & broader liberation movement’s stance on discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. By the 90s, he & others lobbied directly for its constitutional protection, and it was. We do not honour him enough for the intersectionality of his anti-Apartheid work, and the need for the protection of human rights to continue to be thus.
Youth of 1976, thank you for your courage. Your lives were brutally cut short & would have lived to see a free South Africa 18 years later, you, still young, in your 30s & 40s, able to see a dream realised, hope made real & toil reaped. We will never forget you. Lalani ngoxolo.
Godfrey Mokgonane Pitje (1917 - 1997) was a South African academic, activist, lawyer and anthropologist. He earned a B.A at Fort Hare in 1944, later obtaining advanced degrees in anthropology, education, and law. He was invited to lecture in anthropology at the same institution in 1948. He succeeded Asby Peter Mda as President of the YL in 1949 & was in the NEC of the ANC. Pitje was not by nature inclined to politics, and the league lost momentum during his term of office. In 1951 he was succeeded as president by Nelson Mandela and retired from active politics. When teaching lost appeal as a profession with the introduction of Bantu Education, Pitje took up law and served articles in the firm of Mandela and Tambo, qualifying as an attorney in 1959. Godfrey Pitje used his legal expertise to keep the liberation fires burning from the 1960s to the 1990s after the liberation movements had been banned in South Africa. Source: Iono/SAHO
The influencer.
This was for Cosmopolitan magazine or Elle..can’t remember which. 2008/9
Ps I have lost that stick so if you know where it is please bring it back.
Otherwise I still have the outfit . 🩵
Steve Biko, though murdered by the apartheid state in 1977, was the philosophical heartbeat of the 1976 generation. His Black Consciousness Movement taught young South Africans that psychological liberation must precede political liberation. That idea echoed powerfully in the post-1994 democratic project, in the writing of the Constitution's dignity clauses, in the establishment of the South African Human Rights Commission, and in the framing of Ubuntu as a civic value. Biko never lived to see democracy, but his thinking is embedded in its architecture. Ideas outlive their authors. 📚🕯️ #16DaysOfYouthVoices #DemocracyWorksForAll #RememberReflectRebuild