Mphutlane Wa Bofelo

There are four women who respectively work in the retail industry, the health sector and the education sector.  Only two of the women drawn into this conversation have met physically.

NOTE: This Strini Moodley Memorial Lecture was delivered on 19 July 2017 at Howard College Theatre, Howard Campus, Mazisi Kunene Avenue, University Of Kwazulu-Natal (UKZN).

"The modern proletarian class does not carry out its struggle according to a plan set out in some book or theory; the modern workers' struggle is a part of history, a part of social progress, and in the middle of history, in the middle of progress, in the middle of the fight, we learn how we

We have no stereos
Droning love ballads
To lull us from our reality
The only music we
Know is the wordless symphony
Of the buzzing stars
The bright eye of the night
Candles our hope
We don’t know
Various shades
Of lamps and globes but

The ignoble manner, in which America dumped the remains of Osama bin Laden into the sea, highlights the ethnocentric, obnoxious and xenophobic disregard and disrespect for the lives, worldviews and cultures of peoples of the Global South.

The six policemen arrested for the murder of protestor, Andries Tatane in Meqheleng Township in Ficksburg in South Africa’s Free State are 'political scapegoats'. To put it bluntly, the six are 'sacrificial goats' on the altar of populist, grandstanding and electioneering politics.

Back to the front

No more heckling at the back

No more ranting in the dark

No more pontificating from a distance

No more writing behind the scenes

No more analysis after the fact

No more paralysis by the facts

From now on we will regain

The establishment of the Democratic Left Front (DLF) by social movements, community organisations, political parties, labour unions and working-class organisations across the ideological spectrum of anti-capitalist left politics, is the most positive development

people of the motherland!
from now on
for the sake
of balancing
our patriotism
with our loyalty
to our art
we will ask
you to be patient
with us your writers and artists
and grant us
to request you to
allow us to
at some point

President Jacob Zuma defends private corporate capital’s funding of political parties on the basis that corporate citizens should invest in democracy. The reality of the matter is that political parties, governments and states are always terrains of contestation among various class interests.