One of the various qualities of authentic leadership is sacrifice. Authentic leaders are always willing to make sacrifices in order to elevate the people and steer their nations in the direction of development. They are always willing to set aside their interests for the greater good. Thomas Sankara: an African revolutionary One such leader in [...] The post South Africa in dire need of leaders willing to sacrifice appeared first on Consciousness.co.za Magazine ..read more

In 1975 December the 16th, comrade Hlako Kenny Rachidi, was elected as the Black People’s Convention (BPC) third president, a position he held up until now. Therefore, he remains BPC’s last president and the president who buried Steve Biko (BPC honorary president). As we mourn this gallant revolutionary we do so without any sense of [...] The post A send off to our Black President appeared first on Consciousness.co.za Magazine ..read more

The hegemony of the Congress tradition in the so-called post-Apartheid South Africa as inscribed in the final constitution of 1996 has led to a vigorous critique from the quarters of the Azanian tradition. As a result of this the war in the ideological domain is centered around these two traditions born of the struggle against [...] The post Notes on the Azanian Tradition Today: Towards the restoration of Lembede’s Africa for the Africans. appeared first on Consciousness.co.za Magazine ..read more

Afro-pessimism and its counterpart in the Black Radical Tradition, Critical Race Theory have been subjects of controversy in the last few months globally but especially in the US. These two Black theoretical interventions into the nature of racism emerged from the US and share the genealogy of Critical Theory which flourished in the US through [...] The post How they mistook the map for the territory: The trouble with Afro-pessimists appeared first on Consciousness.co.za Magazine ..read more

Author:                Nyimpini Mabunda Title:                     Take Charge- Life Lessons on the Road to CEO Publishers:          Jonathan Ball (2022) Adulting – that illusive place our parents didn’t whisper enough tips about – forces a reflection on past regrets. ‘Should haves’ and ‘could haves’ rang loud at thoughts of my previous employer’s offer to be [...] The post Take Charge- Life ..read more

BLACK CONSCIOUSNESS MOVEMENT-UNITED (BCM-U) “WE ARE MADE OF FIBRE THAT COULD CHANGE THINGS”: A TRIBUTE TO THE AZANIAN MARTYR MTHULI KA SHEZI There are those who in the course of the revolutionary struggle sacrifice their energy, time, ideas and ultimately their lives for the course of liberation. It is common knowledge that life is in [...] The post Mthuli Ka Shezi 50th Anniversary Commemoration appeared first on Consciousness.co.za Magazine ..read more

The death of Elvis Nyathi in Diepsloot two weeks ago is not only a tragedy of a people captured and confined in an Orwellian type of ‘animal farm’, but, in fact, a consequence of the dominance and persistence of racist colonialist concepts and the ignorant consumption of eurocentric definitions of reality and phenomena. Nyathi, like [...] The post Reminiscence Of Apartheid: Illegal Migrants, Foreigners & The Dompass appeared first on Consciousness.co.za Magazine ..read more

“How indeed would a living understanding come to those, who have fled knowledge of the source?” (Ayi Kwei Armah in Two Thousand Seasons). It is that month again when European conquerors and conquered Africans in conquered Azania/ “South Africa” celebrate their heritage. The hegemony of multiculturalism and nonracialism both in “South Africa” and around the globe accounts [...] The post Heritage and the Madness of the Rainbow Nation appeared first on Consciousness.co.za Magazine ..read more

All revolutions and counterrevolutions are premised on some kind of a social and political ontology. The categorization of particular beings in order to inflict some kind of violence and impose a way of being is invariably premised on certain anthropological and ontological propositions. This makes all revolutions to be fundamentally epistemological. The political ontology is [...] The post Notes on a Prolegomenon of an African Revolution: Towards Radical Garveyism appeared first on Consciousness.co.za Magazine ..read more

“Look at us, we have been here before. Long before others came to our shores. Long before other conquerors came” (Don Mattera in Azanian Love Song). Azania as opposed to “South Africa” has recently mourned the transition of Don Mattera. On the other hand, the UK is currently mourning the death of Queen Elizabeth. Since [...] The post Memory is a weapon: Reflections on the Doctrine of Discovery in South Africa appeared first on Consciousness.co.za Magazine ..read more