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THE PODIUM [26.05.2021] TALKS TO BLF PRESIDENT ANDILE MNGXITANA ABOUT INJUSTICES FACED BY AFRICAN PEOPLE DUE TO COLONIALISM AND ARPATHEID. HOW THAT CAN BE REVERSED.

THE PODIUM [26.05.2021] TALKS TO BLF PRESIDENT ANDILE MNGXITAMA

For Black Analysis 2, we bring you this recording of the Black First Land First's (BLF) #BlacksInDialogue series. The event took place on the February 28 and the topic of discussion was 'Why ABSA should pay back the stolen R3.2 billion.' Panelists were BLF National Convenor, Andile Mngxitama, author & Former Director of the South African Reserve Bank, Stephen Goodson, writer & columnist Pinky Khoabane, and lecturer & chartered accountant, Khaya Sithole.

Black Analysis 2 - #BlacksInDialogue 3

[Note: Program originally aired in August 2016] 

In a speech delivered in 1971 in Cape Town, South Africa, Steve Bantu Biko proclaimed that the: “The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.”  

This time-less expression is currently fueling grassroots organizing and resistance efforts in South Africa.  We see the echoes of this axiom in movements across South Africa from the Rhodes Must Fall/Fees Must Fall uprisings to the organizational expressions of resistance through organizations such as Black First, Land First or Abahlali baseMjondolo [Shack Dwellers Movement] and Landless People’s Movement; and outside of SA, with the Homeless Workers’ Movement [Brazil]. 

Before we begin our conversation with Andile Mngxitama, it is important to hear and think with Steve Biko.  One of the Africana world’s foremost activist---thinkers, Steve Biko is mostly remembered through the work and ideas of the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM).   

Although Steve Biko was not alone in forging the Black Consciousness Movement; he was nevertheless its most prominent leader, who with others guided the movement of student discontent into a political force unprecedented in the history of South Africa. As a consequence of his potent political mind and activity, he is inextricably linked the development and evolution of the Black Consciousness Movement, which spread across the African world, finding it’s lasting expression in Afro Brazilian communities.  To understand more about the life and contributions of Steve Biko, there is no other place to start than to read him, you can start by reading and thinking through I Write What I Like…but for now, we can listen to him #ThinkingBlackOutLoud. 

After thinking with Bantu Biko, we explore movement building in a ‘post’ Apartheid SA, with Andile Mngxitama, a leading black consciousness thinker and organizer. He co-edited Biko Lives! Contesting the Legacies of Steve Biko, has published four essays in the New Frank Talk journals. He is frequent contributor to various multimedia outlets that explore Africa in general, South Africa specifically.  

Enjoy the program!
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Additional resources:
Africa is A Country [video]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksgrJyOrd7A 
Quartz Africa: https://qz.com/africa/1111666/feesmustfall-black-south-african-students-had-a-better-chance-at-graduating-during-apartheid/ 
Al Jazeera English [video]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOGkWCfcq-o 
Andile Mngxitama [Twitter]: https://twitter.com/mnxitama?lang=en 
South African History Online [https://www.sahistory.org.za/]: https://www.sahistory.org.za/people/stephen-bantu-biko 
South African History Online [https://www.sahistory.org.za/]: https://www.sahistory.org.za/archive/quotes-steve-biko 
South African History Online [https://www.sahistory.org.za/]: https://www.sahistory.org.za/archive/biko-lives-contesting-legacies-steve-biko-edited-andile-mngxitama-amanda-alexander-and 
All Africa [multimedia new source]: http://allafrica.com/stories/201507311433.html
More on Andile Mngxitama: http://mg.co.za/author/andile-mngxitama-comment-author
South African History Online [https://www.sahistory.org.za/]: http://www.sahistory.org.za/article/apartheid-legislation-1850s-1970s
Black Opinion [media  http://blackopinion.co.za/
Black First Land First: https://blf.org.za/
https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/a-conversation-with-guilherme-boulos-leader-of-brazils-homeless-workers-movement/
South African History Online [https://www.sahistory.org.za/]: https://www.sahistory.org.za/article/landless-peoples-movement
Abahlali baseMjondolo: http://abahlali.org/

Image: https://nmaahc.si.edu/object/nmaahc_2015.97.27.6

Thinking with Steve Biko & about South African w/ Andile Mngxitama

Former Greek finance minister and economist Yanis Varoufakis joined Amy for a long-form conversation about his vision for a fair, just, and competitive post-capitalist society, as detailed in his new book ‘Another Now: Dispatches from an Alternative Present.’ We discuss his political activism, influences and time as finance minister seeking to negotiate a settlement for Greece with Europe’s establishment. Yanis is a professor of economics at the University of Athens and co-founder of Diem25. Broadcast on 27 October 2020.

Interview with Yanis Varoufakis, Another Now: Dispatches from an Alternative Present

Long-form conversations about politics and current events, international affairs, history, art, books, and the natural world – presented by Amy Mullins, Tuesdays 9am-noon on Triple R 102.7FM.

Interview with Yanis Varoufakis, Another Now: Dispatches from an Alternative Present

Uncommon Sense – Triple R FM