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teawiththeot · 2 years
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“Oh you people!’
Oh, you people - a racial microaggression I have heard a lot throughout my life. But it never stopped there. A “Why do you have to be so loud? Just calm down.” My White accounting teacher loved to follow that line with: “This is my classroom, not a shebeen” (shebeen also known as tavern). Throughout my whole life the message had been clear - Leave your cultural baggage outside these White owned institutions. I was made to feel that I don’t belong. And I unconsciously learnt to deal with and keep my mouth shut. Assimilation of the dominant culture. Which is an effect of colonialism and apartheid that you do not voice out your concerns because if you do, you will be punished, therefore keep your mouth shut. And I have. All along it was clear, I am black. Only people of my color can understand me better. Walking into a room of strangers and subconsciously looking for person of my skin color. I had been excited about this community block, at the back of my mind, I had the thought that I can relate and work with these community because of my background. As I walked into the Marianridge Secondary School for the first time, there were two female black students outside during school hours and one of them said: “Naba laba abazitshelayo” (Here comes these people, who think they are better). Oh you people again, yet this time it was complete different message than I was use too. All along I said the message was clear. . . maybe not so clear as I had thought. I was made to feel like I don’t belong by the two people I thought I would relate to the most. Being in this community block, writing this blog has made me question myself if the idea of positionality isn’t just defined as having fixed identities, can it be shifted and change over time?
Broussard (2022) explains “positionality is then where we stand in relation to dynamics of power and privilege. It is the way that each of us with our unique set of identities (our race, class, religion, gender, sexuality, nationality and ability status) affects our social and political context differently. Positionality also describes how our identities influence, and potentially bias, our perspective on the world. As individuals, we experience our positionality differently in different contexts” This is very interesting read about Positionality—What Is It and How Does It Affect My Semester Abroad? A link is found here https://vertoeducation.org/verto-education/positionality-semester-abroad/ indeed we experience our positionality differently in different contexts. I had slap on the face on how deeply my amount of education influences my representation in that community. I am currently seen as that person “you just wouldn’t understand”, this had made me see the importance of self-awareness and my presence has on these community. It has definitely challenged me confront my lack of knowledge, the privilege in my own life and why are the community members rejecting my work.
My race, Zulu culture, family have contributed my positionality. I grew looking for the first black person I see in the room, I grew that as a woman that I belong in the house and not outside. You don’t question the man, you follow. That’s all I knew and all I have seen in my household. Hegal et al., (1987) argues that wives in patriarchal families have minimal power in comparison to their husbands. And my culture thrives on patriarchy. My feminism has also created my personality. I have seen this all my life and I have completely refused to a part of the society that fails to see me independent and raising a family; however this is the type of issues we come across with in the communities where mothers have no say, belong at home, take care of the kids and cannot raise concerns because when you do, you become a burden. A interesting video of Feminist Author, Malaika Wa Azania, tackles the seeming tensions which exist between black feminism and African culture https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AxHBmMRAcE – a video my father will hate but I am definitely sending the link to him as well. But these are the type of issues we face as therapists in the community, absent fathers, depression mothers and there is little way to unmask these topics in the communities especially in the African communities. We’ve taken the “deal with it and keep our months shut”
An article from News 24 (2013) argues that “The reality about the current system of is that it was born by the past and is the product of the past, therefore its implementation is directly proportional in relation to the past, in other words it is not an independent system but highly dependent upon the past political system. Therefore, as majority of the African population continues to be marginalized” as a person who was raised by a population that grew up oppression, the past has effects because we always taught to trust the White man, we see in our communities where patients ask not to been seen by person of colour. This is shifted my definition and understand of positionality and how your location can shift network of relationships.  
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Image 1 sourced from the TeenVogue: shows the cuffs of how patriarchy has women locked up. Gender is a big part of my culture. looking at this picture. I am confronting myself and my positionality in my community and the community I am working in. I am seeing patients of sexual assault by family members, men dictating their lives, afraid to come home after the schedule time and it challenges me as young therapist how can we break the system. Without being judgmental because the first question I use to ask is: ‘why don't you leave’  yet against the ruthless regime of the past and current system, women from black families are still dependent on their husbands. 
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When i look it into this image, the first words that come to my mind are the lyrics from a popular American artist Chris Brown: ‘how can you hate from outside the club, you cannot even get it” to me, it reminds me of openness to positionality, learning, shifting locations, lets take initiate to learn about our communities, lets understand their history. What we grew up in and learnt, is not all there is. 
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Why it is important to consider one’s positionality when assessing conditions, working in communities as young student therapist. The famous Nelson Mandela once said “if you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart“  - the question I am asking myself from now on, am I confronting my identity, where is my location of it, have I researched about this issue I wanna tackle. This is what I want to bring in my intervention. Image3 (unknown credit) is the visual form of my understanding, that it is a climb. But Is it worth it? 
References
https://www.news24.com/news24/how-colonialism-and-apartheid-impoverished-the-african-population-20130218 Hagan, J., Simpson, J., & Gillis, A. R. (1987). Class in the household: A power-control theory of gender and delinquency. American journal of sociology, 92(4), 788-816.Maher, FA. And Thompson. (2001) The Feminist Classroom: Dynamics of Gender, Race, and Privilege, Lanham MD: Rowman and Littlefield publishers.
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our-ewblog · 3 years
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Book Review | Corridors of Death
Book Review | Corridors of Death
Picture Credit: Coverd_Books on Instagram Reading Corridors of Death was saddening. It is truly embarrassing and sad that black children in South Africa are faced with the trauma of having to navigate white-owned and controlled spaces that constantly reject their blackness, unless they conform or bow down to whiteness. And that is because whites still own most of the resources in post-democratic…
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southafricantv · 4 years
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Malaika ‘wa Azania’ Mahlatsi suspended as Mzwandile Masina’s speechwriter
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Malaika Mahlatsi. Picture: Supplied
An inside investigation into the matter is below means whereas the creator and activist stays on full pay.
In an announcement circulating extensively on social media and different platforms on Tuesday, the Office of the Executive Mayor of Ekurhuleni, Mzwandile Masina, mentioned they’d issued the mayor’s speechwriter, Malaika Mahlatsi, with a discover of intention to droop her employment with the town for allegedly breaching their social media coverage.
The well-known creator, activist and presenter allegedly breached municipal insurance policies requiring her to, amongst different issues, all the time act in the most effective curiosity of the municipality and “in such a means that the credibility and integrity of the municipality usually are not compromised”.
“Personal use of social media” wanted to be “performed in a fashion that signifies no hyperlink or affiliation with the [City]”, the assertion continued, however the metropolis had the suitable to “take crucial steps ought to customers make the usage of social media in a fashion that has a direct, oblique or potential influence on the CoE’s repute or pursuits”.
The assertion added that the mayor’s workplace had famous “with nice concern” the circulation of “an alleged audio recording of Mahlatsi on social media, wherein she claims that the manager mayor decreased the salaries of employees members within the municipality with out session”.
They mentioned the claims have been unfaithful and “devoid of factuality”.
Finally, Katlego Mamabolo posted this insert/clip believed to be a phone dialog between himself and Malaika Mahlatsi… citing he can be importing extra clips, which he ended up not doing.
[Part 4 of 4] pic.twitter.com/DF03iiSTuk
— Lekau (@Ntsako_Shibambo) May 12, 2020
The assertion by spokesperson Phakamile Mbengashe continued: “The Executive Mayor, upon deciding to donate 33% of his wage to the Solidarity Fund, consulted the Speaker of Council, Chief Whip, Members of the Mayoral Committee, the City Manager, the Group Chief Financial Officer and, all Heads of Department to encourage them to hitch himself and President Cyril Ramaphosa’s resolution to contribute to the fund.
“The above-mentioned elected public representatives and officers signed pledge types authorising the City’s Department of Human Resources to deduct a portion of their salaries and redirect the donations to the Solidarity Fund.
“The Executive Mayor has no authority to lower the salaries of municipal employees,” mentioned Mbengashe.
Claims that Mahlatsi was “doing’” a PhD on behalf of the mayor have been equally false.
“The Executive Mayor is at present within the early stage of getting ready his analysis proposal for a Doctoral Degree in Philosophy.
“At no level has any particular person authored or contributed to the contents of the analysis proposal, together with anybody who was reviewing or proofreading the fabric.
“The Executive Mayor has and continues to stick to the scholar code of conduct of the establishment,” mentioned Mbengashe.
He mentioned that when it comes to Clause 16.three of the CoE Disciplinary Procedure Collective Agreement, Mahlatsi can be positioned on suspension with full pay and an inside investigation into the matter was at present below means.
The motion got here within the wake of Mahlatsi issuing a public assertion denying accusations levelled towards her by her former lover Katlego Mamabolo, the chief director at Rectitude Private Prosecutions.
Among these have been that she had been writing a PhD dissertation for Masina, her employer.
She responded that Mamabolo should have been confused in regards to the motive she had a few of Masina’s tutorial materials on her laptop computer, which she defined was solely as a result of she was reviewing a chapter for her boss, not really writing it. She additional challenged Mamabolo to provide the recorded audio proof he claimed to have of her supposedly admitting to the tutorial fraud.
Mahlatsi is understood by the pen identify Malaika wa Azania. She printed her first guide in 2014, titled Memoirs of a Born Free.
You can learn extra in regards to the quite a few accusations between Mahlatsi and Mamabolo on this article or by clicking on the hyperlink beneath.
ALSO READ: Malaika Mahlatsi denies writing PhD for Mzwandile Masina amid love spat fallout
Katlego Mamabolo and Mahlatsi Malaika met in the direction of finish of March 2020, and visited one another on numerous events. Their relationship did not survive 14 days quarantine… SA started 21-day lockdown finish of March 2020. You guys assume what I’m considering? Orange go well with… pic.twitter.com/fDyp86TTLw
— Kokwele M. Phillix ???????? (@Matome_Kay) May 12, 2020
(Edited by Charles Cilliers)
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therealafrikantruth · 7 years
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WE APOLOGIZING for missinfomation we heard Malaika wa Azania, born Malaika Lesego Samora Mahlatsi is alive. Her mom is the one who REST WELL.
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jamesmurualiterary · 4 years
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South Africa’s BlackBird Books is now an independent publisher.
BlackBird Books, formerly an imprint with Jacana Publishers in South Africa, became an independent publisher on Wednesday, April 1, 2020.
In the early 2010s, Jacana Publishers brought us some of South Africa’s most popular books at the time like Memoirs of a Born Free by Malaika wa Azania, My Father My Monster by McIntosh Polela and Redi Tlhabi’s Endings & Beginnings. Shepherding these titles…
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thesepeopleproject · 5 years
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Malaika wa Azania. She's a mess as far as her interpretation and understanding of African traditions is concerned. Where do y'all get these people from
— Mfana kaMshengu 🇿🇦 (@Mshengu_1) October 16, 2018
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monkey-rat · 10 years
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I may not have been born during times of constitutionalised apartheid but I still remain a product of an epoch of systematic, individualised and institutionalised apartheid. So nothing about me or those who were born after me is free.
Malaika wa Azania, Memoirs of a Born Free
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