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New Introduction to ‘I Write What I Like’

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New Introduction to Steve Biko’s I Write What I Like

by Lewis Gordon

Steve Bantu Biko was a courageous man. This is not to say that he was callously neglectful of the value of life, including his own, but rather he was a man for whom life was so valuable that the fear of death could be transcended. The consequence was that he found a way for word and deed to meet and thus to achieve the urgently political and the genuinely liberating. Brutalized to death in the flesh, he left his words to unfold through three decades in a continued challenge to every human being to carry on the fight for our humanity. Dust though his body has become, his ideas live on.

Revolution Comes Like a Thief in the Night

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Revolution Comes Like a Thief in the Night

Life, ordinary life, is meant to follow certain rhythms. We grow, seasons change and we assume new positions in the world. When you have finished being a child you put away childish things and move on to the next stage of life. But there is a multitude of people in this world who cannot build a home, marry and care for their children and ageing parents. There is a multitude of people who are growing older as they remain stuck in an exhausting limbo, perhaps just managing to scrape together the rent for a backyard shack by selling tomatoes or cell phone chargers on some street.

Mngxitama: ‘We are not all like that: the monster bares its fangs’ (Essay on the pogroms)

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We are not all like that: the monster bares its fangs

by Andile Mngxitama

The sms’s came fast and furious. As furious as the fiery images we were subjected to by our television and our daily newspapers. The front pages are a festival of beastly pictures of the victims of the negrophobic blood letting which has gripped South Africa in the past weeks. I dreaded opening a newspaper for days – afraid of being confronted by yet another grisly product of the negrophobic xenophobic violence, which by the end of week three had claimed the lives of about one hundred people and displaced about 100 000, according to some estimates. The mind spins out of the axis of the normal.

Remarks at Abahlali’s 10th anniversary, Oct 3, 2015

Remarks at Abahlali’s 10th anniversary, Oct 3, 2015 Nigel Gibson Phansi Nigel Gumede, Phansi. I am the other Nigel from the other side of the world who has supported Abahlali since its birth. “Celebrating a Decade of Struggle,” how can one celebrate a struggle? Let us reflect on that Struggle is hard, painful, and dangerous, […]

School of Thought: Part 3: Lewis R. Gordon – What Fanon Said. Wednesday 7th October at 10.30am

School of Thought: Part 3: Lewis R. Gordon – What Fanon Said. Wednesday 7th October at 10.30am Lewis R. Gordon returns as the next in our remarkable series of radical padkos visitors for CLP’s 2015 “School of Thought”. We’re so grateful and humbled to have had Raquel Gutiérrez Aguilar address and engage us in the previous […]