By Tiro Makhudu
The appointment of President Jacob Zuma to high office, or any office that requires even a fleeting modicum of intelligence, was arguably the most notable faux pas any nation has committed in the 21st century. Much like repetition for emphasis, or rather sheer stupidity i.e Bafana Bafana, AmaBoko-Boko, Banyana Banyana etc, we elected the arithmetic expert to high office- twice. My personal befuddlement lies not so much in the decision to place an incompetent to lead the undesirable; that is an unmistakable pattern in the Nubian democratic story. What has me reeling, is our trajectory a second before this catastrophic blunder. Read More …

By Tiro Makhudu
The modern day black man wears his shackles with an insulting pride to his forbearers, a slave in mind and body, he sees not his chains for they neither clink nor clank. Dressed in his colonial attire with his nose in the air at those from whence he comes, he is the cosmic joke that celestial bodies have no time laughing at. The modern day black man hands his master the whip and assumes the position without a shade of shame, pride or single cohesive thought towards strategy, legacy or the actualisation of the self; outside of the construct, those who have captured his self-worth have laid on the plate of crumbs he calls his identity, a plate placed at his feet so he thinks nothing of the fact that he must kneel before them to get to it. Read More …

Have you ever sat and thought that the definition of “black”, even if only for BBBEE purposes, is a matter of principle? A betrayal to the ONGOING cause of freedom?

It may very well seem like I am splitting hairs but I assure you, nothing could be further from the truth.

Freedom is more a state of mind than anything else. It is more than “going to the same schools” and “swimming in the same pool.” A free African should not feel the need to give their child a European name or even have a so-called “white wedding.” But that is, perhaps, yet another branch of the same rotting tree that requires another freshly-ground axe. Read More …

As a people, black in particular but humanity at large…and I make the very deliberate distinction because black consciousness as an idea is ailing and dying an egregiously painful death somewhere in a dark, dingy corner. But let the record show that pro-black is in no way, shape or form anti-you if you are not black.

But by the barometer or litmus test of the Steve Bikos of the world, what are the limitations of that consciousness? Is it simply cognisance of your value or purely political? And why such a question? Read More …