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@valavoosh
Aug 1, 2020 • 3 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
I love that Beyonce incorporated Mbube from the Evening Songbirds. Solomon Linda's family is going to eat! The story of this song and how Linda (who composed and wrote the song) was tricked into signing away his rights is heartbreaking. This is reparations #BlackIsKing
Solomon Linda was tricked to signing away his rights. They paid him by making him the cleaner and "tea boy". That story makes me mad. He died poor. Meanwhile record companies are making millions off his song #BlackIsKing
Solomon Linda's family lost out on something like 15 million USD worth of royalties. Now look at God! Beyonce will generate hype. Who knows how much they will get from this. From being tricked to sell the song to $2 to this moment! #BlackIsKing

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Nov 6, 2023
Ben Turok was serving a three-year sentence at Pretoria Central around the time that Vuyisile Mini, Wilson Khayingo and Zinakile Mkabi were executed. Of this day in history he recalled, “I was already awake when the singing began again in the early morning…And then, unexpectedly Image
the voice of Vuyisile Mini came roaring down the hushed passages. Evidently standing on a stool, with his face reaching up to a barred vent his cell, his unmistakable bass voice was enunciating his final message in Xhosa to the world he was leaving.
In a voice charged with emotion but stubbornly defiant he spoke of the struggle waged by the African National Congress and of his absolute conviction of the victory to come. And then it was Khayingo’s turn, followed by Mkaba, as they too defied all prison rules to shout out their
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Feb 15, 2022
In 1964, during the Rivonia Trial, Nelson Mandela said, "The ANC has never at any period of its history advocated a revolutionary change in the economic structure of the country, nor has it, to the best of my recollection, ever condemned capitalist society."
That man's statement is a little all over the place because if the ANC did not condemn capitalism, there would be no need to "work" anyone because they all felt the same way. The only one isolated from his comrades on Robben Island was Sobukwe.
Mandela was in prison for 27 years (1962-1990) and never claimed to have stayed on the island for 27 years. It's in his autobiography.
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Aug 9, 2021
For this women's day here is a thread on women we should know. I want to start with Mazhar Makatemele who was also known as 'Black Sara'. She was the first Black woman in Sweden. How? She was kidnapped from Kwa-Zulu Natal by enslavers in 1846. She is buried in Sweden.
Rafaela Stålbalk has done some work on trying to uncover this story. Search a blog called Black Women in Europe for more information on Makatemele and her daughter.
Like last time there's no chronological order. So next up is the Mother of Azania, Zondeni Veronica Sobukwe (nee Mathe). Among her contributions is that she led a nurses strike at Victoria Hospital back in 1948 in Alice, Eastern Cape.
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Jun 8, 2021
We're 8 days away from the 45th anniversary of the Soweto Uprising. On 8 June 1976, two police officers walked into Naledi High School looking for a learner named Enos Ngutshane. Ngutshane was a SASM leader and these officers wanted to take him in for questioning.
Naledi High school students were having none of that. They threw stones at those cops and overturned the police's car. Ngutshane was wanted for writing a letter to the Minister of Bantu administration saying the students did not want to be taught in Afrikaans.
The incident coincidentally took place on anniversary of Naledi High's founding. The school was established on this day in 1963. Ngutshane was never part of the 16 June protests as he was arrested on the 14th for that letter he wrote. Ngutshane was in Matric that year.
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Jun 7, 2021
Pixley ka Isaka Seme passed away 70 years ago on this day in 1951. This year will mark the 140th anniversary of his birth.
Now before you say you wish the leaders of today were like him...they are. A few revelations about his corruption, fraudulent qualifications have surfaced in recent years. Last I checked the family was challenging these claims however, I haven't seen a rebuttal from them yet.
It's to be expected. History is always contested so men like Seme will never not go unscrutinised. He reminds me of "Dr" Wellington Buthelezi. But WB was far more fraudulent: Lied about being African American, about being a GP, about being a representative of Garvey's UNIA.
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Apr 24, 2021
Oliver Tambo passed away on this day in 1993. Here he is in 1955 at a boxing match Todd Matshikiza covered.
"I said to myself when I saw them, Shucks, these fellows Nelson Mandela and Oliver Tambo are actually enjoying this cruel sport."- Matshikiza Image
At the ANC conference in November 1958 when the Africanists moved to leave the ANC. At this heated conference in which a fight almost broke out Sobukwe declared, "We shall think of co-operation with other races when we have come into our own."
📸: Peter Magubane Image
The Tambos at Madiba's 70th birthday concert at Wembley in 1988
"He did not introduce me to the struggle; I was already in it when I met him.”- Adelaide Tambo Image
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