Category Archives: People

On this 41st anniversary of the death of the founding President of the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania, Mangaliso Robert Sobukwe it is worth noting that the people of South Africa relate to Sobukwe according to their backgrounds and their level of knowledge of the man. The majority of white people, the so-called Coloureds and […]

Legendary musician Oliver “Tuku” Mtukudzi’s death touched many in an extraordinary way, compressing the world into a tiny village, as people from all over converged in one frozen moment to mourn the icon. His death, sad as it were, provided Zimbabweans with a rare opportunity to unite again following decades of mounting hate fuelled by […]

I am compelled to make a comparison between President Trump and the new Prime Minister of Ethiopia, Abiy Ahmed. I see many similarities between these two accidental leaders of two countries of immense significance on their own rights. The “Truth Telling” problem. Both Trump and Abiy have a big problem telling the truth. They both […]

October 23 marked the 28th anniversary of the death of PAC founding member and its second President Zeph “The Lion of Azania” Mothopeng. There's an attempt to write him out of history. Addressing the 6th Annual Spring Law Conference at Unisa Main Campus in Pretoria on the 27th September 2018, I raised the issue of […]

Author: Fred Bridgland Publisher: Tafelberg Year of publication: 2018 Reviewer: Sam Ditshego "True leadership demands complete subjugation of self, absolute honesty, integrity and uprightness of character, courage and fearlessness, and above all, a consuming love for one's people," Robert Sobukwe, PAC founding President. This book is about the ruling elite’s unfettered power locally and internationally, […]

In its fear and its desperation, in its brutality and callous disregard for life, the apartheid state inflicted a devastating loss on the Steven Bantu Biko family and on our nation. The murder of Steve Biko reverberated across the world, reinforcing the characterisation of apartheid as a crime against humanity. We commemorate a cruel death. […]

I will dwell on a reality story of Newton David Kambala. This man, born and mostly educated in the rural areas of Malawi, grew up without role models. Had no ambition to go to University as he didn’t know much about University. All he knew was to one day become a mechanic to fix maize […]

This month we celebrate the 100th anniversary of Madiba's birth. We give thanks for Madiba's life. During his last years, I had the opportunity to touch and feel his spirituality when I ministered to him. His faith was complex, but believing as he did that “religion is in our blood” as South Africans, he of […]

The 27th day of February 2018 marked the 40th anniversary of the death of South Africa’s remarkably outstanding leader we should often hear about in the post-apartheid South African parliament, Mangaliso Robert Sobukwe. However, we don’t often hear about him except from the PAC and APC MP’s who cut lonely figures in parliament. Sobukwe was […]

January and February are two of the saddest months for most Africans and people of African descent on the continent and in the African diaspora. The source of this melancholy is Europe and the United States of America. The recent utterances attributed to one of the leaders of these countries rubs salt into our wounds […]