I have been given the great honor by @kimheller3 to contribute a chapter to her seminal book, #WhitePrivilegeBlackPain, it was my further privilege to be part of the panel of the contributors to the book, to discuss the critical central messages of the book at the book launch, at #ExclusiveBooks in Rosebank. Herewith the contributions that I made:
Dr @MbuyiseniNdlozi, I trust you are keeping well and warm during these cold days sweeping across parts of country.🇿🇦
I agree wholeheartedly with you that our engagements should never descend into ad hominem attacks or belittle education. Education must be valued and defended, for it remains the foundation upon which our children build their futures.
At the same time, it is worth remembering that wisdom is not confined to the classroom. Lived experiences also carry deep insights that enrich society. We must appeal to those who are "educated" to be mindful not to present themselves as the sole custodians of knowledge or to treat others as less wise. They should not speak over communities or appear to be lecturing them on how to advance their struggles.
I am of the view that the in public discourse, the "educated strata" of society should set a good example for children, who each morning commit to the disciplined routine of schooling, by showing respect for the voices and lived experiences of those "less educated". Without such respect, children may grow up believing that disregarding the experiences of the "less educated" is the proper way to engage with others.
My good Dr, I will argue that education achieves its highest purpose when it listens, learns, and collaborates with society in humility. In that way, it becomes not only fashionable, but also inclusive and transformative.
Thank you for engaging my post. Wishing you a pleasant weekend.🙏🏽🇿🇦
I ran my first Comrades in 2016 with only a matric certificate. Completing it made me see that I can conquer anything in life. This is what happened post that:
2017: HC Law.
2022: LLB.
2026: Masters degree in Law. I’ve never missed Comrades ever since.
I’m already busy with another degree.
For me, Comrades is life.
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
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I love Bafana Bafana Yes but I can't sit here and pretend like they will win the World cup no, I wish them all the best yes but PORTUGAL is taking the world cup
Mcebo Dlamini a political player who overestimated his worth
He got burnt & left the playing field only to look back & say there's no political leader he looks up to
Brother you hung your jersey & waved the white flag, you an analyst now
Let the big boys now, play you gave up
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