Plastics Piss on Biko's Legacy

I have been trying hard to understand the concept of Black Consciousness and more so, I am still trying to understand this concept from Steve Biko's view.

This, I do, because I have seen on many an occasion how many followers of this concept have attempted to bring it into the politics of the day. Not that this is a bad thing, but it raises questions when those who are not happy about the state of affairs use this concept to drive their narrow ideas and agendas.

Biko's BC did not promote hatred against a white people, as some who claim to be followers of Biko, have done. A guy on facebook said the tour guide who laid his life to save a tourist, when their boat capsized in Cape Town, was "dumb". His logic was that the tour guide should have let the tourist die because the tourist is not BLACK and that the tour guide would not have done the same for a Black person, so he deserved to die. When I interrogated this statement I was called names, which does not really bother me, given the fact that I, Rastafari knows more than he does.

The tone in that conversation was that Black people should offer no help to the white people, that the white person must be treated like dirt "because we are/were treated like that too by white people. This, to me, did not make sense. I failed to understand the type of a nation we are trying to be. It made me think that some scholars within our education system, especially higher education, are more stupid than they should be. I say this because many of the guys who claim alliance with Biko's BC are at universities and other sectors of higher education.

Their idea is that Blackness, as Biko saw it, should be the tool to perpetuate injustices of sorts. White people are also not helpful in this instance because, as it was when Biko lived, they still patronise the Black majority with their liberal ideologies. This, you will see everytime Zille goes to a poor area; her dancing there, her speaking that Xhosa of hers and the simplistic manner in which she implies that the lives of the poor shall be changed for the better under her rule.

But still, none of what the new followers of the BC concept say, is helping Black people achieve the liberation Biko spoke of. Hatred and insults are not representative of the Black person, but he who this is Blacker than all of us will differ on this. Hatred is not spoken of in Biko's teachings, posing the question that "Who's teachings are these guys following?" I am not trying to attack people here but I am concerned about what the youth will learn. Nkrumah, Nyerere, Selassie I, Lumumba, Kenyatta and even Sankara never had this type of Blackness. This type of Blackness, reactionary blackness, is not what Black people should be define as.
None of the African leaders I mentioned here would take seriously such consciousness as Black. This is hatred, not BC. In fact I challenge these educated fools to give us a programme of action by which they seek to liberate the Black people. Let them paint me a picture of the South Africa they envisage post-Biko.

If you ask me, many of these people piss on Biko's legacy!!!

Vela wena unesazela.

I Stop and Stare

Reflexionz

I stop and I stare

Violence and despair the order of the day

Futsek Futsek, they say

Bow at the barrel of the pistol

For they are the slave of the system

I stop and I stare

The Death of a Nation yet at Birth

Reactionary Leaders

Devise their own Demise

Religious Leader left with their jaws on the floors… stop

Stop… stop, they cry

Stop and heed the Call of the Young

I stop and she Cries

Stares at the very Red of his Eye

Is it Ganjah or Drugs that got him so High?

Behold the demise of the little One

Stop and Step back

Behold the work of your Hand

Fatass Politiciaans running our nation with obscured Vision

Intelligent and Negligent

Behold the Beginning of your End. Stop and Reflect

Taking matters into one's own hands

Today's post is less serious.

The Giver

In keeping up with what is sweeping over the globe: selflessness and sacrifice, I have volunteered my services as a communications practitioner to a soccer club in Khayelitsha that has potential to achieve big things.
I do need extra cash but that is not why I am doing this. Firstly, I am a big fan of football and particularly township diski. Secondly, I believe that giving back to the community means more than just food packages, cleaning the streets and feeding the elderly. My take is that the talents and the skills we have should be mobilised for the common good of all; that our skills and expertise should be seen in action, so as to give hope to the many. I will give details of this new arrangement later.

The Business Man

Still talking about making moves and taking matters into one's hands, let me introduce you the Black Reign Communications.

This is a company owned and directed by Matthews Mfubu (Journalist and Communications Practitioner), Notukela Mzilikazi (Public Relations and Communications Practitioner) Yolanda Makosi (Public Relations and Communications Practitioner) and Vuyo Mabandla (Journalist and Business Writer).

The company is based in Khayelitsha, Cape Town and has identified a gap in the market; a need, really, for far-reaching medium by which SMMEs and local government would drive their public campaigns. A unit designated to events coordination has been set up and a Community News Agency has also been established. We have seen the need for an all-encompassing Communications and Public Relations (and Events) company to effectively communicate with, and serve a wide-range of audiences and markets.

So, if your company is in need of any of the afore-mentioned services, do not hesitate to contact us at mzilikazinotukela@gmail.com, or mfubumm@gmail.com, zandilemakosi@gmail.com and vmabandla@yahoo.com

Alternatively: 
083 472 8562 (Matt Mfubu)
078 373 0568 (Yolanda Makosi)
078 697 2643 (Tukela Mzilikazi)
083 959 3345/  084 6300 393 (Vuyo Mabandla)
The website and generic email details are to follow at a later stage.

The Poet.

Many people have laughed at me about this. I have taken up a new hobby and it is not smoking. Yep, you guessed it right. I will now write poetry. I have already posted, on this blog earlier in the week, a taste of what my writing may look like. I will fight hard to get time to write so that I will have at least one poem on each weekend.

For now, I will halt here.

Black the Revolution

Black the Revolution

Black the Revolution…

Sing…

Sing and Dance at your Own Peril

Sing and Dance without Caring

Behold…the child whose being

Is derived from the Melanin

Noble men, Commons, And Bastards

Ruled, Divided and Conquered… with eyes bloodshot

From the cries…cries of midwives

Black the Revolution…

Frown…

Frown pon this… this beast

Black the Revolution…

Frown pon this… liberation is not this

Shoot to kill… Shoot to kill

The ideals of self-enriching and personal will

Long live Biko…Biko is Revolution

Rebel revolt for the left

For ours is a time of test

Black the Revolution…

Rise Princes and Princesses..

Youth man rebel rise to this…

Black the Revolution…

Hear no Evil and chain and spank the wicked…

Legalise it…Legalise it, they shout

Man on Man…Black on Black

Light up the spliff and hold a higher meditation

For Liberation is not this…

Black the Revolution…Liberation is not this.