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TRUE AFRICAN TOGETHERNESS

TRUE AFRICAN TOGETHERNESS

MOSEBUDI MANGENA LAST week I had meals at a hotel as well as at a different restaurant in Johannesburg, courtesy of a company I am associated with and a bunch of friends. As I often do, when I asked those serving us for their names and places of origin, it was pleasing to hear them coming from Soweto, Nkandla, Matatiele, Bulawayo, Masvingo and similar other places. Before Covid-19 wreaked havoc with our travelling and socializing, South Africans in the hospitality industry were as scarce as water in the Sahara desert. It was almost exclusively Zimbabwean nationals who dominated the employment…
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“Let’s eradicate inferiority complexes that bedevil the psyche of black people”

“Let’s eradicate inferiority complexes that bedevil the psyche of black people”

MOSEBUDI MANGENA  Mosibudi Mangena ON September 12, 1977, that is 44 years ago, the life of a then 30 year old Steve Bantu Biko was snuffed out in the cruellest manner imaginable.  After being subjected to torture and beatings in police detention in Qheberha, he was transported naked on the bare floor of a bakkie to Kgoshi Mampuru Prison in Tshwane where he died a lonely death in a cell. He was murdered in this callous way for daring to demand freedom for the majority black population in this country. Bantu Biko was an ordinary young man born in the…
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