This ‘Brazen: Reflections’ series was born out of a desire to continue the conversations springing out of the ‘Too Early For Birds: Brazen’ theatre performance in...
In this third and final part of a three-part series, ISAAC OTIDI AMUKE revisits the funeral of Winnie Madikizela Mandela, the Mother of the South African...
In this second of a three-part series, ISAAC OTIDI AMUKE examines the controversy surrounding the murder of Moeketsi Seipei, popularly known as Stompie, which was blamed...
In this first of a three-part series, ISAAC OTIDI AMUKE traces Winnie Madikizela-Mandela’s early years, from her marriage to her iconic husband Nelson Mandela to her...
The representation of women in political leadership globally hovers around 20% of most governments, parliaments, heads of state, according to United Nations documentation. Between 1995 and...
It was a gathering of women. Mothers, sisters, daughters and wives of black male ex political prisoners. They had been gathered at Cowley House, Cape Town...
First of all, let’s dispel the myth that ignorance is bliss. It can be. States of unawareness can be a cushion, feathered down and fuss-free, when...
African traditions and cultures have always held an awareness of the life cycle, from birth to death and the afterlife. The life cycle made us aware...
“Kweli itashinda kesho, kama leo haitoshi.” ~ Shaaban Roberts Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, you have left us, but you will be immortalised forever in history as one the greatest...
It is not unusual that when a liberation struggle hero dies, many voices come to the fore, to bear witness, to lament, to remind, to narrate....
“Not until you have discovered what is worth dying for is life really worth living.” Nomzamo Winifred Zanyiwe Madikizela-Mandela Reminiscent of Freire’s analogy of liberation as...
Speech delivered on 14th April 2018 by Julius Malema at Winnie Mandela's funeral.