Bang'uMhlaba

📍Trade and Industrial Policy /@ORTamboSchool and @WitsCLM /Author: ‘New Settler or Old Tenant?/Tweets are my personal views.

[Bang'uMhlaba @aycawe]

‘Stay with me, when the sun rises from a western sky with silver spears lashing at earth and our youth ….

We live in times where we are against time and impulse rules over us …’ -

Sandile Dikeni

(Image courtesy of @Chimurenga_SA)

[Sinister in the Presidency @AmandaBRinquest]

“The apartheid enemy tries to separate us into ancient ‘tribal’ entities and pretends to be concerned about the preservation of our cultural heritage.”

- Oliver Tambo

[Parks Tau @TauParks]

In replying to the debate on budget vote 39, I raised two salient issues. The first is that the policies of the dtic are working to support local industry. And the second is that we need to be more accurate in how we present facts around B-BBEE so that we don’t mislead the public

[اماني @758sunshine]

Caribbean people are such natural poets. Reading a book set in Jamaica and the barber name his shop 'Addis Ababa Shop'

I'm so tickled by how clever that is 🤣

[Okuhlekodwa👏🏾 @KusaselihleNgu2]

In February 1686, the Dutch ship named "Stavenisse" wrecked near uMzimkhulu river in what is now KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. The 71 person crew was taken in by the AmaXesibe kingdom in the region led by a king they called "Magamma". The survivors accounts...

[Dr Malusi Gigaba @drmalusigigaba]

In 1983, Pallo Jordan was detained in Lusaka — interrogated until he nearly died. He was not broken.
Today he turns 84. I open The Black Library Series with his name — not in eulogy, while he is still here.
Find Comrade Pallo Jordan's full tribute article here https://t.co/F8lwbnhttZ
#PalloJordan #BlackLibrarySeries #AfricanIntellectuals #TheFutureIsNotAnAccident

[Bang'uMhlaba @aycawe]

Archetype.

[Bongani Fetsha @BFetsha]

@SizweDhlomo Take a laaitie from Queens College from Komani who will speak the most rural Xhosa and in the same breath switch up with the most laarniest English.

[Bang'uMhlaba @aycawe]

‘The small, sleepy towns produce dreamers’

[History ZAR @HistorySAZAR]

Jazz pianist, composer, writer and journalist - Todd Matshikiza (1921-1968), was posthumously bestowed the Order of Ikhamanga (Gold) for his contribution to the liberation and cultural enrichment of South Africa through his multidimensional creativity. Source: The Presidency. Image Source: Todd Matshikiza Collection

[History ZAR @HistorySAZAR]

Jazz pianist, composer, writer and journalist - Todd Matshikiza (1921-1968), was posthumously bestowed the Order of Ikhamanga (Gold) for his contribution to the liberation and cultural enrichment of South Africa through his multidimensional creativity. Source: The Presidency. Image Source: Todd Matshikiza Collection

[Bang'uMhlaba @aycawe]

‘… there is an inclination on the part of South African authorities to, on the balance of evidence, respond to import competition … in a manner that buys the space to invest in capability improvement and industrial upgrading’

https://t.co/solhwiXMB2

[Bang'uMhlaba @aycawe]

Deserves a ‘re-reading’ each and after every two weeks oro monthly. This one and Lenin’s Imperialism.

[Shezi @__Shezi]

Rereading The Book.

[Bang'uMhlaba @aycawe]

CLR James

[Bang'uMhlaba @aycawe]

He’s a legend. I wouldn’t eat a baboon though, but it’s dope how he’s made iqhilika and ukuzingela famous, I try and watch every Monday. My faves kula lali yakhe nguBhele noKwaaiman 🤣🤣🤣

[The Great Dosinii! @LOZAAH]

Really enjoying Khwezi Mntwini’s content on YouTube ndithanda lento yoba yonke lento uyenza ngesi Xhosa 🤌🏿🔥

[Bang'uMhlaba @aycawe]

@AmandaBRinquest Right? And how he managed to get Kotane and a few others outside the court in the image as well

[Bang'uMhlaba @aycawe]

Jurgen Schadeberg’s composition and use of depth of field was brilliant. So much in an image

[History ZAR @HistorySAZAR]

Ditch-workers in Johannesburg, pounding rhythmically and singing, 1951. Credit: Jurgen Schadaberg

[Chrispin Phiri 🇿🇦 @Chrispin_JPhiri]

Xitsonga to the World #SAinIndia #BRICS2026

[History ZAR @HistorySAZAR]

Nelson Mandela with hip-hop group Prophets of Da City on Election Campaign in Elsies River, 1994. Credit: Rashid Lombard

[Parks Tau @TauParks]

Economic emancipation is the measure of our freedom in this country.

Broad Based Black Economic Empowerment will continue to be the lever we use to free our people in this country.

It must be strengthened, it must be revised but ultimately, it will not be abandoned.

[Gambu KaMemela @tmpakati]

Ours is a fight for justice and human rights. @Radio702 #People'sLawyer

[Bang'uMhlaba @aycawe]

@tmpakati @MbuyiseniNdlozi Msuthu 🙌🏾 makufundwe!

[busani ngcaweni @busani_ngcaweni]

Book alert @JacanaMole