"None of us was naturally living in a township. Townships were set up as labour reservoirs and we had nowhere else to go. We ended up in townships, but that's not where we belong. We did not even create them. We are kept in pockets of land, and the bigger portion was taken away."
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“He went through the koma, and that’s it.” No explanation, no closure; just silence. Those boys who didn’t come back, the ones who died during the ordeal? Instead of being buried at home, these poor boys were dumped in the bush, far from their mothers, far from their families. No goodbye; just… gone. We were supposed to accept that.
Writers continue to be essential in the fight for social justice. We resist through words and stories. We write to build bridges in a fractured
society. We make our way through the dark. We find light. We have the opportunity to rewrite our prejudices, and when structures of oppression persist against us, we collectively have the power to change the narrative.
In a village set up like here, we need people really to be empowered and to be inspired. Most people were just coming to witness what a book launch looks like because it's a very rare occasion in rural areas.
In this country, because writing is slowly becoming unfashionable, books are becoming unfashionable, and we are trying to make sure that literacy keeps transcending and these people actually are now only understanding that there's a book fair and what does this book fair entail, and its impact in helping communities.
Groblersdal Library manager Christa Steyn was surprised to get a call from Limpopo premier Chupu Stan Mathabatha offering to donate some of his book collection…
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.”
The decolonization of tertiary education is not necessary only in the legal space. Decolonization to me, is about teaching, preparing and producing intellectuals, professionals and academics that will have not only thoroughly engaged with their subjects, but who are going to be placed in a position to transform our country and to form part of solutions that will find meaning and relevance in the South African context. For instance, in my space which is land reform, I find that most law schools do not have land reform as a stand-alone and focused subject.
Award winning author and publisher Tshifhiwa Given Mukwevho recently hosted the inaugural Rine Book Festival in his home village of Madombidzha in Limpopo. The event was the first of its kind in this sprawling village on the outskirts of the historic town of Louis Trichardt.
Apparently, one fateful night of 8 August 1996, Papa went to the police station where he was stationed. He booked an R-5 rifle telling colleagues that he needed it to attend to a suspect that was dangerous and heavily armed. I was told that he had to book a gun as he was no longer allowed to carry one due to his history of domestic violence which was reported to his employer, South African Police Services (SAPS)