“The giant has been reawakened.”
I would like to welcome you to the first weekly edition of Moithuti. The relaunch of our renovated website has come with a valuable window of opportunity for us as an organisation to continue with the culture of political writing that was started long ago. It is only through the act of intellectual discourse that we can grow and nurture one another politically as an organisation and develop the cadre-ship core required for the complete overhaul of the oppressive system.
Political writing has for an extended period been seen as the domain of a certain spectacular sect of comrades within the organisation. This exclusive culture must come to an end; it must be known that the relaunch of Moithuti is a platform for all comrades to test their views in the broader spectrum of society. We encourage the leadership of branches, regions, provinces and the NEC to nurture and foster a culture of reading and writing. We should also engage and host workshops to educate our fellow comrades so that they can fully participate.
It saddens us that this is our first editorial and in the last 4 months of our term. As editor-in-chief and secretary general, it brings great joy to my heart that the legacy of Moithuti will live on beyond our generation of leadership.
July is a month that is commonly used now to commemorate the life of the world Icon Tata Nelson Mandela. His legacy of non-racialism and reconciliation lives amongst us even today, we must take time as an organisation to recognise and cherish not only his legacy but the profound self-sacrifice that he underwent for our nation’s freedom. As we approach Mandela day we encourage all members of our organisation to uphold the words of our esteemed SPOT document when it says “we are members of the community before we are students”, we encourage all our members to spend the 67 minutes or the entire day doing something to actively help the community around them.
We hope that Moithuti, the online weekly journal, will become the melting pot of ideas and a platform where our members will give and get perspectives on burning political issues within the higher education landscape and South African political landscape as a whole. We hope to see more submission of topics ranging from de-coloniality, decommodification, white monopoly capital, gender and intersexual identity, the South African economy, organisational renewal and many more topics. In fact, any topic that one would feel is relevant and pressing to our organisation and society in general.
In this week’s edition we feature four writers with distinct views on 4 separate topics, Cde Lebo Ntuli from KZN unpacks the effects of gender quota system in our organisation, she goes further to give directive as to how we can strengthen female activism. Cde Tokologo Mphalele from Limpopo addresses the Soweto Uprising of 1976, whilst drawing lessons from the past for our future endeavours. Cde Tshepho Mohlomi from North West delves into the question that every new member of our organisation asks upon joining; “what is SASCO”. Lastly, we have an article from Cde Sizwe Shiba from Gauteng, his article deals with the 4th industrial revolution and its prospects as well as its pitfalls for the working in SADC.
Every Thursday we will send out invites for contributions for publication on the following Wednesday, submissions close on a Friday of each week. These invites will cover various ideological questions and topical issues of the day. Contributors are urged to limit their strong views to two and a half pages and to attach their photos with every submission. If circumstances permit, replies may be entertained in order to keep the spirit of the discourse going.
We encourage you to read and enjoy these articles thoroughly; we also hope that these articles will start the conversation about pertinent issues within your branches.
Borrowing from the words of Paulo Freire’s in the pedagogy of the oppressed “For apart from inquiry, apart from the praxis, individuals cannot be truly human. Knowledge emerges only through invention and re-invention, through the restless, impatient, continuing, hopeful inquiry human beings pursue in the world, with the world, and with each other.”
In all simplicity, what he attempts to do through this quote is outline the fact that there is no topic so redundant that it cannot be revaluated and discussed, knowledge can only be acquired from asking questions, and action with each other and the ideas that we produce!
Let’s engage!
Tembani Zimasa Makata
Editor in Chief: Moithuti
Secretary General
071 875 2209
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Revolutionary greetings Cde Tembani Zimasa Makata (Our be love Holistic Nobhala )
Indeed we are confident to say our intellectual Hub movement of PYA/MDM is absolutely reawakened.
Mine is just to thank you together with your collective NEC leadership on renovating this key web. May I understand the whereabouts of posting articles on this website nkokheli or procedure per se, so to contribute meaningfully in our giant students’ movement?
Bua Moituthi Bua!!!
Yours in SASCO
Tumelo Matthews Gaegake
UNISA Rustenburg Branch
Good morning Cde Tumelo.
You can kindly forward your articles to the email of the Secretary General.
When history of the student revolution is being told ,you shall be remembered not as a spectator but a participant. Rejuvinating the idea of writing is the greatest move in the awakening of the giant student movement, surely in the next edition I shall contribute too.Thank SG and your editorial team .