honestly, there’s not much to celebrate this Workers’ Day
💔44% of SA youth are unemployed
💔 more than half of households rely on social grants
a job comes with responsibility, dignity, safety & empowerment
until we fix the unemployment crisis … the work really isn’t done 🇿🇦
Hupfi the Department of Basic Education gave a tender to distribute grade 1 to 3 textbooks to a guy called Kasongo Mugoya. Kasongo yeye momba linanga 🎼 🎶 🎵 https://t.co/7FNVW0Mk6e
DA leaders sound like average Americans when in comes to geopolitics: simplistic, chronically ignorant & plebeian. You could swear they live in Arkansas!
Most tragically is how they defer their entire thinking on geopolitics to Euro-America: a complete zombification!
Sad story! But also a culture shock if you think about it: a white dominated party under complete intellectual tutelage by western, equally ignorant white masters. Tragedy at its best! No original, autonomous or even critical thinking… ZERO!
When you hear them speak, you really wonder if these people know they are in Africa, global south and post-colonial country! None of these categories, which are grounded in history and reality, inform any of their world view.
youth unemployment today becomes elderly poverty tomorrow 💔💔
South Africa's retirement stats show most people simply can't afford to stop working
the heartbreaking reality is an entire generation may never experience financial stability... at any age
11 years ago I opened @StayTrueSounds … now I’m out here handing awards to South African underground artists for running up MILLIONS of streams.
Full circle. Real impact. Independent wins.
More life.
Don’t drink from the mainstream
Congratulations to everyone I have managed to hand out awards to. In no order at all.
@ChronicalDeep - Kumo EP, Nothing Is Impossible EP and Claps Back EP
@Dwsonofficial and @iam_sio - Forbidden
@CharmeleonChina - Bomalume
@beatsbyhand and @kali_mija - Gypsy Woman
Today marks 30 years since the Truth and Reconciliation Commission began. It’s first hearings took place in KuGompo City on this day in 1996. The first person to speak was Nohle Mohapi-Mbetshu, activist and the widow of the first Black Consciousness Movement activist murdered in detention on 5 August 1976, social worker, SASO Permanent Organiser and director of the Zimele Trust Fund, Mapetla Mohapi.
Mapetla’s is one of several unsolved cases that were recommended for further investigation after none of those who were the last to see him alive came forward to tell the truth. I wrote about it here.
I’ll site one main reason the usual suspects are mad. There’s a beautiful section on the ways language holds history through iziduko, izibongo etc. making it necessary for us to take oral histories seriously as much as we do written archives. Now that will potentially mean placing all our languages on an equal footing at the school level.