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Bo Mbindwane

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Nov 7

I thought about Cuba this morning.

Cuba came to the assistance of South African liberation forces, Angola’s MPLA without the acquiesce or involvement of the powerful Soviet Union.

However, America did urge & support South African apartheid racist government to invade Angola.
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Angola should never forgot Cuba. It is sad to see the relationship not being much much higher than it is.

Cuban sacrifice to liberate South Africa should be recognised in SA law to disable any situation where any court or reactionaries could make this sacrifice, unsung.

The first foreign army to ever dock in African soil not to conquer or take something or someone from Africa was the Cuban army - they came to sacrifice body & limb to liberate Africans, they sacrificed resources & gave skills.

We need a South African law to cement a memorial.

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Bo Mbindwane

@mbindwane

Oct 16

What if John Langalibalele Dube did not persuade King DinuZulu ka Cetshwayo to hand himself over to the police?

What if DinuZulu decided to fight the colonial white government?

What if Dube’s letter to DinuZulu was not delivered?

What does it mean to us today?

When DinuZulu ka Cetshwayo walked out of his home to face the colonial army that came to arrest him.

He had been assured by Exempted Natives, Dube who later became the first ANC president that no harm will be done to him.

DinuZulu was again charged with treason, imprisoned.

DinuZulu did not have peace in his life having spent most of his youth in exile or in prison. Exiled by the British to St Helena, DinuZulu was denied his position by the British whites.

The Afrikaner boers were at this not so imposing on the African.

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Bo Mbindwane

@mbindwane

Oct 9

One day we need to talk about the Christian lapel worn by ZCC and it’s true origin and ask why is it still relevant today or why should it even be relevant at all?

Uncomfortable talk.

During the colonial era in South Africa, in the 1800’s, whites ruled via Church Missionaries to some extent.

People who could read & agreed to be a loyal servant of Queen Victoria were given lapels to wear all the time to distinguish themselves from the majority of the African.

In 1865, early in the life of the Colony, Law No. 28 was enacted which allowing certain African natives to become exempted from oppressive Native Law.

Founders of the ANC like Langalibalele Dube & his crew were exempted natives, the super Black elite I often talk about.

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Bo Mbindwane

@mbindwane

Oct 8

When the time came, his own saw him as an intruder, a wild stranger amongst them, yet he had been their brother all along, he was one of them.

They tossed him off & out,they said he committed a crime against the men in green robes & that had to be punished by men in green robes

They gossiped & laughed, they didn’t call him “father” again, they instead mocked him as an empty dancer & singer whose fame was up & tired. They no longer needed his song & dance.

His song & dance promoted them but made the men of lush mountain side weary, they needed safety.

An imperfect man from the backwaters of poverty laden mud houses whose walls cracked each time someone sang.

Some amongst his princes had decided to make the walls stronger for him. They instead built new stable walls in unfair charity. He got ensnarled, they pretended purity.

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