VUYANI PAMBO
THE white man is sealed in his whiteness. The black man in his blackness – Frantz Fanon. The times demand a disturbance.
A disturbance in the progression, in the harmony of the music of Cyril Ramaphosa’s South Africa. We must render it noise, inaudible such that no one continues to dance to it. We must render it off-tune because for a long time, we have been dancing to his song that has kept black people nodding to suffering and blatant oppression.
Needless to say, the task of fighting against one’s oppression cannot be absolutely delegated. It rests squarely on the shoulders of the one who is oppressed.
Perhaps this is what Bhekumuzi Luthuli was trying to communicate when he said “ubuhlungu besicathulo buzwakala onyaweni” which can be interpreted to mean the one who feels the pain is one who is directly affected by it.
The EFF has
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