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June the month of the Freedom Charter, the start of Passive Resistance, and youth month
The importance of the 1946 Passive resistance struggle which later transformed to the 1952 Defiance campaigns, the 1955 Congress of the People resulting in the birth of the Freedom Charter, the 1956 Women’s march against the pass laws and 1976 youth uprising against bantu education, is the affirmation of the power of nonviolent mass action.…
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Paolo Friere’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed and Gandhian Education
Discussion about colonial education and how to decolonise education is rife everywhere in S.A. Here are ideas of two personalities who have written much about education and how education can be used to oppress and how it can be used to liberate. This is just a trigger to start discussion on what needs to change.…
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Gandhi Development Trust’s Early Childhood Development Values Education Project: Izimpande Zobuntu By Kanya Padayachee
Gandhi Development Trust’s Early Childhood Development (ECD) Values Education Project (VEP) is making incremental progress in equipping Early Childhood Development practitioners/caregivers with a core set of universal values – underpinned by Ubuntu – to guide their classroom practice and promote behaviour change in the children in their care. At the completion of the third year…
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The Land Question in Southern Africa and India By Anil Nauriya
The subject of land reforms seems again to be in the air. Both India and southern Africa have had some land reform programmes following political liberation. I do not intend as such to “compare” the two. The land inequalities within the two regions are well known The pressure on land is, of course, great in…
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Social Cohesion Conferences
Recently there have been many attempts at looking into the levels of racism in South Africa. While we have had a number of forums where these questions have been discussed and views frankly and openly expressed to bring about some changes in our thinking and behaviour the words of the three doctors pact are of…
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Satyagraha in Pursuit of Truth
A decision has been taken to produce Satyagraha once a quarter. This is why we have not been on line for the past two months. This edition is for March 2017 and the next edition would be on line in June. We are keeping our stories short. We welcome feed back from you. Drop us…
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Human Rights and Women’s Rights
By some coincidence our Government declared 21st March as Human Rights Day while the month of march is celebrated as the international month when we reflect on women’s rights and status. Historically the gross violation of Human Rights in Sharpeville and Langa on March 21 1961, was the reason for our government’s decision to observe…
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Why Phoenix Settlement Should be Declared a World Heritage Site
Recently a group of African Americans from the National Association of African American Studies visited the Phoenix Settlement in Durban South Africa. They were impressed with the historic background of this “Ashram”. They asked if they could nominate this Ashram for declaration as a world heritage site as they felt…