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By Innocent Madzhoni My wallpaper is a sublime painting of Van Gogh, that artistic genius who sold one painting during his lifetime. Yes, his life was short-lived, dying at the age of thirty-Seven by suicide. (Also, there’s something about artists & premature death.) But his work was so visionary and futuristic, one of the giants…
I come from a background and environment where self-praise is something that is shunned at and not encouraged by many. This background is often informed by a strong Christian sensibility where self-praise is seen as taboo and often misconstrued as being boastful and braggadocious, so it is constantly disavowed and discouraged by many in our…
It is the 14th of February at 21h00. It’s a Friday and to the many couples out there, tonight is a very special night as they will lay besides one another under the feet of St. Valentine, the patron saint of love (to whom this day was named after), but to Motheo and all the…
“Seize the means of production!” “Overthrow State Power!” “Overthrow the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie!” “Socialism is the future!” Hahaha, if slogans be the food of ideology, then give me less of it, for it numbs the intellect and feeds the indolent. How my mind used to recite those words every now and then, they found…
The drummer Asher Gamedze’s album, Dialectic Soul is out, released in early July 2020 via On The Corner record label. This promises to be the one of the most important releases of the new decade and an important footprint in the history of South African jazz. Through this record, we are taken through the genealogy of the pan-African struggle…
The piano was your canvasYour fingers were the paintbrushAs they swirled round and aboutThe black and white keysThey brought color to a colorless futureLeading us to a re-imagination of lifeA renaissance of creativityA revolution of sonority Your fingers spoke of beautiful wordsFashioned as intricate, improvised consonancesThey invited us to the well of rebirthA journey towards…
(This is a reproduced article written last year September) Sobukwe’s doctrine of nonracialism (as opposed to the “multiracialism” of the Charterist Movement falsified as “nonracialism”) which is underpinned by Sobukwe’s famous maxim: “There is only one race – the human race” was a direct repudiation of the tenability of distinct racial categories from a biological…
Throughout history, writing has been the most effective process used by human kind to express thoughts and ideas in a logical manner. Our earliest ancestors, the early homo sapiens expressed ideas through symbols and rock art. A practice inherited by the San population of the Southern Africa, until the development of written language soon became…
The Agitator 