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Where did the word Hippopotamus come from? origin of this word? Some say this word describes the behaviour of this animal as it is submerged in the water for according or in Zulu language bathi I-phuphutha manzi thus becoming Hi-phuphuta-manzi, however a contrary view points to Greek language, the Greek words hippos meaning "horse" and potamos meaning "river" or "rushing water." The Hippopotamus is a large semi-aquatic mammal that is found wallowing in the rivers and lakes across sub-Saharan Africa. So this animal called Hippopotamus is only found in Africa, how do the Greeks end up having a name for an animal that does not exist in their country and continent? The Nguni or Zulu descriptive word make sense for Zulu speaking Africans interact with this animals at the rivers and natural dams just like many Africans across the continent, however should we be that simplistic by accepting the I-phuphutha- manzi notion? I think the need of African Anthropologist to explain these questionable social areas and organic development of African society prior colonialism is necessary, since it is proven that Bureaucracy "originate" from China and other Asian countries, then was exported to Europe, and then through colonialism European capitalist adapted it to serve European Capitalist expansion interest as they sought new markets thus took bureaucracy to other parts of the world does not originate from Europe! African scholars must begin to provide scientific account about primeval Africa and African languages including Empires and States such as Zanj and Timbuktu! How African states and bureaucracies were structured and operated in relation to social development and many facets of the society is of great importance. This goes to extent of also questioning the history taught at schools which might perpetuate European and Arabic notions and distortions about the African people. It is highly regrettable that South African Universities are failing play an objective emancipation role on research and scholarly work on making the African history to be known and told, university historian commonly cites and reference from one colonialist entrepreneurship to the other on knowledge generation thus subjective narrate the same notions advanced by Adam Smith in the Wealth of Nations about the indigenous Africans. As Marx said the ruling ideas will and shall be the ideas of the ruling class, knowledge generation through universities in Africa today continues to enjoy the dictates white supremacy and capitalism! Shango lashu Nkrumah Raymond Kgagudi From: Mohlomphegi Mphahlele [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 12 September 2013 04:24 PM To: Nkrumah Raymond Kgagudi; [email protected]; [email protected]; 'Horatio Motjuwadi'; 'Jaki Seroke'; [email protected]; 'PASMA Gauteng'; 'Advocate K Sizani'; 'Zamikhaya Gxabe'; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; 'Zukisa Mxesibe'; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; 'Azi Mnandi'; 'Luyanda Gwina'; 'Johnson Mlambo'; 'Malinge Plaatjie'; 'Joseph Thloloe'; 'Jerry Vakasha'; 'Ray Johnson'; 'Julian Mohlala'; 'Kindo Makhanda'; 'Khethamabala Sithole'; 'Baliwinile Kwankwa'; 'KK Kekana'; 'Kgomotso Matsebe'; [email protected]; 'Kutie Thondlana'; [email protected]; [email protected]; 'Horatio Motjuwadi'; 'Jaki Seroke'; [email protected]; 'PASMA Gauteng'; 'Advocate K Sizani'; 'Zamikhaya Gxabe'; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; 'Zukisa Mxesibe'; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; 'Azi Mnandi'; 'Luyanda Gwina'; 'Johnson Mlambo'; 'Malinge Plaatjie'; 'Joseph Thloloe'; 'Jerry Vakasha'; 'Ray Johnson'; 'Julian Mohlala'; 'Kindo Makhanda'; 'Khethamabala Sithole'; 'Baliwinile Kwankwa'; 'KK Kekana'; 'Kgomotso Matsebe'; [email protected]; 'Kutie Thondlana'; [email protected]; [email protected]; 'Vusi8 .'; 'Lesomepedi Boshego'; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; 'Albert Mokoena'; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; 'Pule Maqekoane'; 'Letlapa Mphahlele'; 'Mphiri Masoga'; [email protected]; [email protected]; 'Malesela Mogashwa'; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: RE: AFRICAN REVOLUTION BETRAYED - REMEMBER AND EMULATE STEVE BANTU BIKO (18 December 1946- 12 September 1977, Pretoria Prison Cell) Courage Comrade Nkrumah! This are positive contributions that will help PAC emerge from its demise and compromise position to assume a revolutionary character that was formed to be. Ga e gole, ga e lwane, ga e kgaleme ya Azania!! Azania Shall Prevail!!! From: Nkrumah Raymond Kgagudi [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2013 3:46 PM To: [email protected]; Mohlomphegi Mphahlele; 'Nkrumah Raymond Kgagudi'; [email protected]; 'Horatio Motjuwadi'; 'Jaki Seroke'; [email protected]; 'PASMA Gauteng'; 'Advocate K Sizani'; 'Zamikhaya Gxabe'; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; 'Zukisa Mxesibe'; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; 'Azi Mnandi'; 'Luyanda Gwina'; 'Johnson Mlambo'; 'Malinge Plaatjie'; 'Joseph Thloloe'; 'Jerry Vakasha'; 'Ray Johnson'; 'Julian Mohlala'; 'Kindo Makhanda'; 'Khethamabala Sithole'; 'Baliwinile Kwankwa'; 'KK Kekana'; 'Kgomotso Matsebe'; [email protected]; 'Kutie Thondlana'; [email protected]; Mohlomphegi Mphahlele; 'Nkrumah Raymond Kgagudi'; [email protected]; 'Horatio Motjuwadi'; 'Jaki Seroke'; [email protected]; 'PASMA Gauteng'; 'Advocate K Sizani'; 'Zamikhaya Gxabe'; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; 'Zukisa Mxesibe'; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; 'Azi Mnandi'; 'Luyanda Gwina'; 'Johnson Mlambo'; 'Malinge Plaatjie'; 'Joseph Thloloe'; 'Jerry Vakasha'; 'Ray Johnson'; 'Julian Mohlala'; 'Kindo Makhanda'; 'Khethamabala Sithole'; 'Baliwinile Kwankwa'; 'KK Kekana'; 'Kgomotso Matsebe'; [email protected]; 'Kutie Thondlana'; [email protected]; [email protected]; 'Vusi8 .'; 'Lesomepedi Boshego'; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; 'Albert Mokoena'; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; 'Pule Maqekoane'; 'Letlapa Mphahlele'; 'Mphiri Masoga'; [email protected]; [email protected]; 'Malesela Mogashwa'; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: AFRICAN REVOLUTION BETRAYED - REMEMBER AND EMULATE STEVE BANTU BIKO (18 December 1946- 12 September 1977, Pretoria Prison Cell) AFRICAN REVOLUTION BETRAYED - REMEMBER AND EMULATE STEVE BANTU BIKO (18 December 1946- 12 September 1977, Pretoria Prison Cell) "It is at moments of need that one learns who one's friends are. Defeated armies learn their lesson" Vladimir Lenin (1920) Steve Biko wrote"We do not want to be reminded that it is we, the indigenous people, who are poor and exploited in the land of our birth. These are concepts which the Black Consciousness approach wishes to eradicate from the black man's mind before our society is driven to chaos by irresponsible people from Coca-cola and hamburger cultural backgrounds." The Quest for a True Humanity, I Write What I Like, 1978. And the most popular writing of Biko about Africans being passive on affairs that affects and determines their well being Biko argued ""The blacks are tired of standing at the touchlines to witness a game that they should be playing. They want to do things for themselves and all by themselves." (Letter to SRC Presidents, I Write What I Like, 1978) Lenin, on Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism (1914) wrote "When nine-tenths of Africa had been seized (by 1900), when the whole world had been divided up, there was inevitably ushered in the era of monopoly possession of colonies and, consequently, of particularly intense struggle for the division and the redivision of the world", Lenin argued furthermore "The so-called Great Powers have long been exploiting and enslaving a whole number of small and weak nations. And the imperialist war is a war for the division and redivision of this kind of booty." The Party-PAC in the 1959 Pan Africanist Manifesto articulated the party's analysis and political line as follows "A Chain of Reaction. The significant portion of our social milieu begins with the expansion of the markets founded by the rising commercial capital of Western Europe at the turn of the fifteenth century. Succeeding years witnessed the "Discovery " of new lands by the Europeans, the Papal award of the whole of Africa to the Portuguese, increase European slave raids on Africa, denuded Africa of Africans and led to the establishment in the Americas of the greatest mass chattel slavery that the world had over known. Africa has been successfully robbed of Africans. It was this chattel slavery that contributed substantially to the initiations of the European industrial revolution which in turn resulted in the unleashing of the chain of the reaction which culminated in the rape of Africa at the close of the last century." The PAC 1959 Pan Africanist Manifesto furthermore explains the expansion of capitalism and white supremacy in the form of imperialism, the people's revolutionary party alludes that "Land Robbery and political Subjugation. Early Europeans settlement of Africa especially of it's southern tip, as a direct result of the rise of European commercial capital. Wave upon wave European settlers came to Africa and their penetration of the interior involved the loss of sovereignty by the indigenous peoples and the alienation of more and more portions of their land." On compromise and revolution Lenin On Agrarian Question in November 14 (1917), and this provides an answer about the ANC's neo-colonial capitalist state, for us as PAC Lenin summed our political path as follows "It is the duty of the revolution to put an end to compromise, and to put an end to compromise means taking the path of socialist revolution." The answers to the current political paralysis and organisational stagnation of the PAC is provided by Lenin on Left-Wing Communism: An Infantile Disorder (1920), Lenin wrote "How is the discipline of the proletariat's revolutionary party maintained? How is it tested? How is it reinforced? First, by the class-consciousness of the proletarian vanguard and by its devotion to the revolution, by its tenacity, self-sacrifice and heroism. Second, by its ability to link up, maintain the closest contact, and-if you wish-merge, in certain measure, with the broadest masses of the working people-primarily with the proletariat, but also with the non-proletarian masses of working people. Third, by the correctness of the political leadership exercised by this vanguard, by the correctness of its political strategy and tactics, provided the broad masses have seen, from their own experience, that they are correct." "If the leaders seek only to preserve themselves, that is what they become; preserves, dried preserves" Leon Trotsky (1936) on the Revolution Betrayed, while regard to the Permanent Revolution Trotsky furthermore advance the perspective that "With regard to countries with a belated bourgeois development, especially the colonial and semi-colonial countries, the theory of the permanent revolution signifies that the complete and genuine solution of their tasks of achieving democracy and national emancipation is conceivable only through the dictatorship of the proletariat as the leader of the subjugated nation, above all of its peasant masses" Shango lashu Compiled by Nkrumah Raymond Kgagudi I'm part of the 49Million initiative. http://www.49Million.co.za NB: This Email and its contents are subject to the Eskom Holdings Limited EMAIL LEGAL NOTICE which can be viewed at http://www.eskom.co.za/e-mail_legalnotice -- -- Sending your posting to [email protected] Unsubscribe by sending an email to [email protected] You can also visit http://groups.google.com/group/payco Visit our website at www.mayihlome.wordpress.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Pan Africanist Youth Congress" group. 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