In 1985, the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), now African Union (AU), adopted the Language Action Plan for Africa as an Africa-wide drive to centre African languages in the continent's post-independent development programmes. The language issue remains pertinent to the continent's decolonial project.
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The kiSwahili saying Umoja ni nguvu (unity is strength) is now more important than ever as Africans celebrate 60 years of the founding of the…
Furthermore, Prof LenkaBula is spot on with the observation that Matsepe was “a product of history grounded in Sepedi tradition wherein we can draw on him as a source of the usage of ‘kgoro’ or ‘royal courtyard’ as a traditional place of resolving societal issues and disputes including gender-based violence and femicide (GBVF) and all forms of women abuse.”
There can be no better tribute to Alexandra Kolontai, Lillian Ngoyi and Ruth First, than calling on young women of our times to take their rightful place in history. Conscious of our painful past as an oppressed global community, specifically the miseries that define the history of our enslaved and slaughtered (great) grand parents, the current generation of young women in Africa, the Americas, Asia and elsewhere should vigorously enter the science, mathematics, engineering and technology space and compete with the best in the world.
Despite police minister Bheki Cele’s recent pronouncements that police would “intensify operations to detect and remove illegal firearms,” there has been no further investigation into the sources of these firearms or the allegations that Durban Central police members were running guns.
Our key findings were that environmental issues such as air, land and water pollution which impacts on human and livestock health, soil and water quality were not adequately dealt with by the law , the mines or by the regulator; communities are living in an unsafe environment, relating to blasting close to houses and the tremors experienced as a result of blasting, as well as concern about the rising crime levels within communities.
As the singing went on elsewhere in the hall by jubilant delegates, the KZN branches sat in silence, with some exchanging words with their comrades who sang looking in their direction, swinging their hands in the air to signal change.
IN August 2019 as I was doing research for my book A Desire to Return to The Ruins – I learnt of the passing of…
Can an embattled political party that’s been losing electoral support afford to still be associated with a self-centred tribalist demagogue and a leader seeking to…
Three leaders have already been shot in their homes inside the commune. The community’s will, safety and sanctuary now hangs on a thin thread as more activists are threatened, also halting the food sovereignty projects that had been established for the development and survival of the community of about 109 residents.