Student movements where are they now


October 2015  will be always be remembered as the month that students post 1994 made the biggest mark in South African (if not Afrikan) history. The eventful weeks of the student uprising began with a documentary from Stellenbosch University “Luister”, of Students who were calling out the university out on its racist language policies and the racism within the institution. This was followed by UCT students calling for the fall of the colonial statues of Cecil Rhodes on the university campus.  The statue represented the colonial rule and legacy, of black hurt and lived experience of the Afrikan person (#Rhodesmustfall). This would only be the launching pad of what was to follow. Read more 

Discover your Afrikaness

The biggest problem with South Africa and our so called democracy, 
is that in the 21 years of democracy, we have failed to deal with our past.

As we celebrate freedom day in South Africa, whose freedom are we really 
celebrating? The 45% of people who are still leaving under the poverty line, 
those who still don't have homes and running water, maybe the social divide 
in the country, or the high levels of crime and racial hate.

Worse yet, are we celebrating the hate of many Afrikans? Our government 
has failed to restore in 21-years, the pride of being Afrikan to the Afrikan 
population of South Africa, to restore our history to us; but rather we are 
still being taught the history of Afrikans/Africans written by the British.
We still don't recognise our own, rather we hear of African foreign nationals 
(perpetuated by government and media). What is a Afrikan foreigner in SA? 
there is no such thing. South Africa its self is geographical position within 
Afrika, it is not even the name of this country.
I hear a lot of White South Africans claiming their African states and
 denouncing African Americans, from their African identity's.
My opinion is that you cannot claim a racial group, because being 
African is a matter of pigmentation, it is a racial classification, not a 
citizenship. Africans in diaspora are Africans and those who occupy 
African countries, are mere citizens of an African country. The same way 
African American are citizens of America, but that could be said for White 
America as well. ( that is a topic for another day). Until Afrikans deal with 
their truth and their identity, Afrikans will be stuck in limbo.

No one will deny we have come far, but we have a long way to go.
Let us revisit our past, not just apartheid, but the true past and history of
 Afrika.
I don't only invite South Africans to do this but, all Afrikans,  African 
Americans, African Europeans, Afro-Brazillian, West Indies... 
All Afrikans. You are much more powerful, far more intelligent, 
more creative  than what history tells you. The truth of Africanism is far 
more, then barbarism.

Afrikanizing the Education curriculum


 
The South African education system is not failing because the teachers are bad or that the students are slow. The problem is the curriculum. In a country that has a majority that is African, using the Western and colonial education system, which the majority of the students consuming it have no relation to, is problematic.
The government of South Africa is still one that is colonized, therefore it is difficult for them to teach anything outside their colonial master’s ways.
Looking at Africa’s best education system Zimbabwe (with the highest literacy rating, according to The African Economist), we notice that its curriculum is Afrocentric, the students are taught with examples and context that is relatable to them, of cause the country does have European langue’s that are used in teaching, such as Germen and English, they also have Latin and use Native languages in township and rural schools... Read More