Download or read book Kaffirship written by Tau Sebata Mohapi and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2022-05-04 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Archbishop Desmond Tutu once said: “If South Africans were to overcome the damage apartheid had caused they have to face up to its results one by one and work through them. For this reconciliation to happen, those responsible for apartheid first had to confess their sin: ‘we have wronged you and hurt you by this apartheid and its injustices, by uprooting you from your lands and homes, by dumping you in poverty-stricken homelands and squatter camps, by giving your children inferior education, and by denying that you are human beings by denying you human rights. We are sorry, please forgive us.’ Tutu further said that those who had committed crime against humanity had to make repayments. “If I have stolen your pen, I can’t really be apologetic when I say ‘please forgive me’ if at the same time I still refuse with your pen and keep it. If I am truly regretful, I will demonstrate this genuine remorse by returning your dispossessed possessions to you.” “In keeping silent about crime, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are promoting it, and it will rise up a million fold in the future. When we neither punish nor criticise criminals, we are their partners in crime and not simply protecting their ill-gotten riches, we are condemning the future African generations to live and die in the depths of poverty and suffering. Kaffirship fathered and mothered apartheid, as apartheid was declared a crime against humanity, so the continuing Kaffirship should also be declared a crime against humanity. Kaffirship is the legalised injustice that still handcuffs Africans in the endless status quo of landless, moneyless, helpless and hapless. Kaffirship is the name of the ship in which all Africans are packed; it is set and predestined to sail with its load to the Death Sea. It is sailing on automatic and none of us seems to have sense enough to turn it around or at least stop it.”: Tau Sebata Mohapi

Download or read book Kaffirship written by Tau Sebata Mohapi and published by . This book was released on 2023-05-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early 1990s Archbishop Desmond Tutu writes about the formation of the new South Africa: "If South Africans were to overcome the damage apartheid had caused, they have to face up to its results one by one and work through them. For this reconciliation to happen, those responsible for apartheid first had to confess their sin: "we have wronged you and hurt you by this apartheid and its injustices, by uprooting you from your lands and homes, by dumping you in poverty-stricken homelands and squatter camps, by giving your children inferior education, and by denying that you are human beings by denying you human rights. We are sorry, please forgive us."Tutu further writes that those who had committed crime against humanity had to return the stolen land and riches and make repayments. "If I have stolen your pen, I can't really be apologetic when I say 'please forgive me' if at the same time I still refuse with your pen and keep it. If I am truly regretful, I will demonstrate this genuine remorse by returning your dispossessed possessions to you.""In keeping silent about crime, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are promoting it, and it will rise up a million fold in the future. When we neither punish nor criticise criminals, we are their partners in crime and not simply protecting their ill-gotten riches, we are condemning the future African generations to live and die in the depths of poverty and suffering.

Download or read book Heritage Formation and the Senses in Post apartheid South Africa written by Duane Jethro and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2019 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this innovative book, Duane Jethro creates a framework for understanding the role of the senses in processes of heritage making. He shows how the senses were important for crafting and successfully deploying new, nation-building heritage projects in South Africa during the post-apartheid period. The book highlights how heritage dynamics are entangled in evocative, changing sensory worlds. Heritage Formation and the Senses in Post-Apartheid South Africa features five case studies that correlate with the five main Western senses. Examples include touch and the ruination of a series of art memorials; how vision was mobilised to assert the authority of the state sponsored Freedom Park project in Pretoria; how small memories of apartheid era social life in Cape Town informed contemporary struggles for belonging after forced removal; how taste informed debates about the attempted rebranding of Heritage Day as barbecue day; and how the sound of the vuvuzela, popularised during the FIFA 2010 Football World Cup, helped legitimise its unofficial African and South African heritage status. This book makes a valuable contribution to the field of sensory studies and, with its focus on aesthetics and material culture, is in synch with the broader material turn in the humanities. This is important reading for students and scholars of anthropology, sociology, sensory studies, and transnational studies.

Download or read book Afrikaners and the Boundaries of Faith in Post Apartheid South Africa written by Annika Björnsdotter Teppo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the shifting moral and spiritual lives of white Afrikaners in South Africa after apartheid. The end of South Africa’s apartheid system of racial and spatial segregation sparked wide-reaching social change as social, cultural, spatial and racial boundaries were transgressed and transformed. This book investigates how Afrikaners have mediated the country’s shifting boundaries within the realm of religion. For instance, one in every three Afrikaners used these new freedoms to leave the traditional Dutch Reformed Church (NGK), often for an entirely new religious affiliation within the Pentecostal or Charismatic churches, or New Religious Movements such as Wiccan neopaganism. Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in the Western Cape area, the book investigates what spiritual life after racial totalitarianism means for the members of the ethnic group that constructed and maintained that very totalitarianism. Ultimately, the book asks how these new Afrikaner religious practices contribute to social solidarity and integration in a persistently segregated society, and what they can tell us about racial relations in the country today. This book will be of interest to scholars of religious studies, social and cultural anthropology and African studies.

Download or read book Ebena written by Patricia E. Sandoval and published by . This book was released on 2022-01-04 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ebena known as Hidden Magic: Discovers she was swept away into a magical world called Enchantment throughout her journey of trying to find a way back home. Discovering a little magic of her own with guidance by three sunflower witches named Bianca, Patti and Jasmine as they escape away from wicked magic. Throughout her journey she meets plenty of friends, in a world full of magic who want to help Ebena return back home. A wizard name Ashmar watches and protects the hidden magic girl as she continues to fulfill her destiny to discover who she is. Beside other friends who guide her along the way, to stop the wicked witches of the West along with their great niece Constance devious plots. Only to discover the hidden magic girl from Kansas has returned back home into her Enchantment world. Putting the wicked witches who taunt their world to an end.

Download or read book These Paths I Walk written by David Hart and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2011-06-29 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has been said that the only energies that exist in this world are love and fear. Other descriptions might be -life and death, now and then, unity and chaos, centering and dispersion, cooperation and diminishment. We all have a center of consciousness we look out from. It either gives us connections we can mutually feed and enhance or we can diminish ourselves. The purveyors of fear are collectors of the inanimate with a false sense of wealth and control. When I look towards and feel nature, my only wish is increasing life.

Download or read book Changing Seasons of Life written by Patricia Elliot and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2020-12-30 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Changing Seasons of life is a book of short stories and poetry. This book will transform your way of thinking. Many of the stories were written by the author a long time ago when she was facing life challenges but she never imagined then that the most traumatic challenge would be the loss of her beloved eldest son to suicide in the summer of his life and that he would never experience his autumn and winter. Her book The Weight of Emptiness: Comfort and Hope for the loss of a loved one is an excellent read for those coping with a sudden unexpected loss of a loved one. Patricia knows only too well the power of using your creative mind and how it allows you to make the most of every situation and opportunity. We all want to live life to the full and improve our overall wellbeing. Nobody said that life would be easy. Allow Changing Seasons to awaken the creativity within you so that you can create the life you want. ‘Creativity builds resilience’ Patricia Elliot

Download or read book 8 15 A True Story of Survival and Forgiveness from Hiroshima written by Akiko Mikamo and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On August 6th, 1945 s Shinji, a Japanese adolescent boy, helps his father below prepare their home for demolition from its roof top, he sees a blinding flash. An Earth-shattering blast with scorching heat sends him into complete darkness and total chaos. An atomic bomb has just exploded only three-quarters of a mile away from him, devastating all of Hiroshima in a blink. Severely injured and burned, Shinji is rescued and pushed forward by his wounded father. It was only the beginning of his excruciating pain and hardships to come for decades. - A miraculous journey of resiliency, forgiveness, and empathy even for the destroyers. One of Shinji's three daughters, Dr. Akiko Mikamo, wrote his story to send out the messages of human love and power of forgiveness to remind the world our worst enemies of yesterday could become the best friends of tomorrow.

Download or read book Biography written by Joseph Polillo and published by . This book was released on 2022-02-11 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Cowboy and the Lady written by Patrick M. Browning and published by . This book was released on 2022-01-14 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hi, I'm Pat Browning. I'm proud you chose to ride along with me a little way. My whole life has been spent cowboying, except for two brief moments when I thought I'd try something else awhile. Both attempts were fairly successful but completely unfulfilling. Once you've made your living horseback, everything else seems a little dull. As this goes to the publisher, I am running a large cow ranch with two divisions here in Arizona. I wrote this story while I was running another ranch down near the Mexican border. The truth of the matter is, I not only cowboy because I love life, it's just about the only thing I'm really fit to do. Not being nearly smart enough to work in one of these computerized hamburger joints, and still having too much self-respect and pride to enter politics, cowboying is about all that's left for me. Many parts of this tale are true, with just enough storyline and pure bullshit added, to hopefully make this tale interesting to a wider demographic of readers. On the advice and insistence of a dear friend of mine, who happens to be an attorney, the following disclaimer is included here; This story is being presented as fiction. Any similarity or resemblance to any place, event, or person, either living or deceased is absolutely coincidental and unintentional and should be taken as such. If you enjoy one of the characters and feel a kinship with them, feel free to tell your friends I was writing about you. I'll not dispute your claim. If, however, you think you recognize yourself in a character and are not pleased with my depiction of said character, please remember this is fiction. I'm writing about some other asshole. You may find the language just a little strong at times. I assure you now, with the exception of a little of this cowboy corral vernacular, this volume contains nothing inappropriate of a sexual, violent, or vulgar nature. It should not offend any, but possibly, the most delicate of readers. With all of that said, please take a deep seat and get a good hold on the reins and enjoy the ride.

Download or read book Seeds for the Harvest written by George Miller and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2013-03-29 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seeds for the Harvest is written to aid prospective church developers in spiritual focus and direction as it relate to church planting. The ready reference guild offers step by step direction in the area of planning, organizing, net working, recruitment, church growth, and the establishment of a successful new church start.

Download or read book The Andean Cross written by Lawrence Clayton and published by . This book was released on 2022-01-28 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever since Europeans discovered and came to conquer and colonize the Americas, a great question occupied European Christians. Did Jesus Christ, or his immediate successors the Apostles and the first Christians who followed, cross the great Atlantic or Pacific Oceans and proselytize among the indigenous peoples of the New World? Read the story of what may have happened. Using his knowledge of the age of the Conquest, the author begins with a shipwreck and an artifact and weaves the story of the Andean cross, a piece of Christian culture that is both American and European. This faced-paced story spanning Europe, North America, and Latin America will electrify you with its implications on the great age of the Encounter and the secrets and mysteries of Christianity that still fascinate so many.

Download or read book Patchwork Culture written by Roy Mackpenfield and published by . This book was released on 2022-01-07 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Who was Dustin Thomas written by Patrick M. Browning and published by . This book was released on 2022-01-14 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The settling of the American west was made possible by the courageous efforts of a few remarkable individuals. History has sadly forgotten these once infamous adventures. This is the story of one of the boldest of these now unknown heroes.

Download or read book When Life Throws You A Curveball written by Mary Beth Bamat and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Do You Believe in Angels written by Bro Ken and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-07-31 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Thomas Jefferson s 1804 First Abridgement of Jesus Words written by Judd W. Patton and published by . This book was released on 2022-03-25 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Jefferson was a deist and his 'Jefferson Bible' left out all the miracles and included only the moral teachings of Jesus." So goes the line in much of academia today. With impeccable scholarship, Dr. Patton has carefully researched, reconstructed, and reproduced Jefferson's The Philosophy of Jesus of Nazareth. He convincingly demonstrates that Jefferson never intended his 'wee little book' to be a new version of the Bible; rather, it was to be a compendium of Bible verses that Jefferson especially recommended to Native Americans.Jefferson includes many significant verses in this compendium such as: Luke 3:23-38 which traces Jesus' ancestry back to Adam; Mark 14:61-62 where Jesus proclaimed that He is indeed the Son of God, the Messiah (Christ), and the great I AM of the Old Testament, Exodus 3:14; Matthew 11:4-5 where Jesus tells the disciples of John the Baptist that his Messiahship is evidenced by healing the blind, the lame, and raising the dead. Those who read Dr. Patton's book with an open mind will conclude that Thomas Jefferson was closer to orthodoxy than many have previously thought.- Colonal John EidsmoeSenior Counsel & Resident Scholar, Foundation for Moral Law - Montgomery, AlabamaAuthor of: Historical and Theological Foundations of Law (a three volume set) and Christianity and the Constitution (and many other books).Dr. Judd Patton, Dr. Mark Beliles and David Barton are to be commended for correcting the prevailing liberal view that Thomas Jefferson did not respect the Bible, and indeed cut it up and "mangled" Holy Writ?it is valuable to know?that he held the Scriptures in high regard and simply edited this [1804] version of the Gospels concentrating on Jesus' moral teachings, as a manual for missionary use to Native Americans.- Garrett Ward ShedonThe John Morton Beaty Professor of Politics, University of Virginia's College at Wise, Virginia Author of: The Political Philosophy of Thomas Jefferson, Religion and Political Culture in Jefferson's Virginia, Jefferson and Ataturk: Political Philosophies, and What Would Jefferson Say?