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IOL News
14-07-2025
- Entertainment
- IOL News
Honouring Frantz Fanon: Screening of 'Concerning Violence' at UWC
A screening and discussion event of 'Concerning Violence' will be hosted by Adwa movement and the University of Western Cape's student organisation, HIM Society, on Tuesday at the Bellville campus. Image: UWC / File A screening and discussion event of 'Concerning Violence' will be hosted by Adwa movement and the University of Western Cape's student organisation, HIM Society, on Tuesday at the Bellville campus. The screening is set to mark the centenary year of the birth of Frantz Fanon. The organisers said that even though Fanon's scholarship has had an enormous influence on postcolonial/decolonial studies, political ideas, historical materialism, and the humanities at scale, the philosophical undertones of his work remain unclear. The screening of Göran Olsson's documentary 'Concerning Violence' will help bring engagement on the past, present, and future of pan-African decolonial thinking and what Fanon envisioned with the ideal of a new humanism. Video Player is loading. Play Video Play Unmute Current Time 0:00 / Duration -:- Loaded : 0% Stream Type LIVE Seek to live, currently behind live LIVE Remaining Time - 0:00 This is a modal window. Beginning of dialog window. Escape will cancel and close the window. Text Color White Black Red Green Blue Yellow Magenta Cyan Transparency Opaque Semi-Transparent Background Color Black White Red Green Blue Yellow Magenta Cyan Transparency Opaque Semi-Transparent Transparent Window Color Black White Red Green Blue Yellow Magenta Cyan Transparency Transparent Semi-Transparent Opaque Font Size 50% 75% 100% 125% 150% 175% 200% 300% 400% Text Edge Style None Raised Depressed Uniform Dropshadow Font Family Proportional Sans-Serif Monospace Sans-Serif Proportional Serif Monospace Serif Casual Script Small Caps Reset restore all settings to the default values Done Close Modal Dialog End of dialog window. Advertisement Next Stay Close ✕ 'Concerning Violence' is a 2014 documentary film that uses spectacular archival footage which tells the story of the African anti-colonial movements of the 1960s and 1970s. Tuesday's film screening will begin at 1.30pm, with discussion on the film set to start from 3pm, focusing on 'The relevance of Frantz Fanon's philosophy from the colonial period to the present day'. A screening and discussion event of 'Concerning Violence' will be hosted on Tuesday at the Bellville campus. Image: Supplied Former UWC SRC president and pan-African researcher Azania Simthandile Tyhali will deliver a keynote reflecting on Fanon's work, legacy, and ideals in the context of decolonisation, followed by a Q&A. The discussion will be moderated by Ras Hein, former UWC student and HIM Society alumni coordinator. The initiative is free of charge. The Adwa movement is a pan-African cultural heritage community movement established in 2015 as a platform engaged in an ongoing struggle to build a decolonial society through advancing the three-fold cause of repatriation-reparation-restitution. It confronts its coloniality through continuous praxis. HIM society is a student structure at UWC that has existed on the campus for over two decades. Its office is a hub for pan-Africanists, critical thinkers, and the black radical tradition in general and RasTafari students in particular. The film 'Concerning Violence' is based on the essay De la violence (On Violence) by Fanon, from his 1961 book 'Les damnés de la terre (The Wretched of the Earth)'. Fanon was a psychiatrist born in Martinique and educated in France, whose thought has had a wide influence on anti-colonial and feminist movements as well as on post-colonial studies. His work focuses in particular on the psychological effects of colonisation and the possibilities for liberation. Fanon worked in an Algerian hospital during the Algerian-French war and died of cancer in 1961, aged only 36. The languages of the film are English, French, Swedish, and Portuguese, and the film is presented with English subtitles. The film is narrated by American singer and actress Lauryn Hill.
IOL News
09-07-2025
- IOL News
Ashley Kriel Memorial Cypher: Honouring the legacy of an anti-apartheid activist
Ashley Kriel was killed by police on July 9, 1987, for his role in advocating anti-apartheid actions. Image: File The third annual Ashley Kriel Memorial Cypher will commemorate the spirit and martyrdom of anti-apartheid activist Ashley Kriel. Kriel, a 20-year-old from Bonteheuwel in Cape Town, was an anti-apartheid activist killed on July 9, 1987, allegedly by apartheid police. Kriel is still celebrated today for his efforts for liberty post-apartheid. He was a fiery orator, strategist, and thinker, and a representative of an extraordinary turn in South African resistance politics: the return to mass politics. Video Player is loading. Play Video Play Unmute Current Time 0:00 / Duration -:- Loaded : 0% Stream Type LIVE Seek to live, currently behind live LIVE Remaining Time - 0:00 This is a modal window. Beginning of dialog window. Escape will cancel and close the window. Text Color White Black Red Green Blue Yellow Magenta Cyan Transparency Opaque Semi-Transparent Background Color Black White Red Green Blue Yellow Magenta Cyan Transparency Opaque Semi-Transparent Transparent Window Color Black White Red Green Blue Yellow Magenta Cyan Transparency Transparent Semi-Transparent Opaque Font Size 50% 75% 100% 125% 150% 175% 200% 300% 400% Text Edge Style None Raised Depressed Uniform Dropshadow Font Family Proportional Sans-Serif Monospace Sans-Serif Proportional Serif Monospace Serif Casual Script Small Caps Reset restore all settings to the default values Done Close Modal Dialog End of dialog window. Advertisement Next Stay Close ✕ Ad loading The Ashley Kriel Memorial Cypher is an autonomous annual initiative that recognises how young progressives today, as in the past, have a critical role to play in the conscientisation of grassroots communities. The event, put together by Adwa movement, and Aboxan Arts and Africa Unite (NGO), will take place on Friday, 11 July 2025, at the Castle of Good Hope at 6.30pm. This year's cypher will take place under the theme 'Roots, Culture, Heritage and Decolonisation', which aims to explore how positive masculinity and leadership advance social justice. It will also reflect on the context that gave rise to the young lions of the 70s and 80s and the structural violence experienced by young men and women today. The event will include the screening of the documentary 'Action Kommandant', which is based on Kriel's life, a panel discussion, Q&A, and live music. Panellists set to be included are: Clarence Ford, special guest Michelle Assure, who is Kriel's sister, Gatto (Mario Wanza), Henrieta Abrahams, and Gorie November. The film itself was recently screened for about 35 high school learners from Modderdamn High School at the Cape Town Museum of Childhood in commemoration of Youth Day. One of the learners said: 'I saw a lot of the areas that I walked every day and thought 'wow, this happened in the area I grew up in' and I didn't even know about it… I knew his past, but I didn't know what he did for us.' Another learner said: 'The film really inspired me to achieve my goals, and fight for what I want in life, and the quote that stood out to me in the film was, 'an act of resistance is an act for humanity'.' The third Ashley Kriel Memorial Cypher will take place at the Castle of Good Hope, where it will pay tribute to Ashley Kriel, who was assassinated on July 9, 1986. Image: Supplied In a statement for Friday's event, the organisers said that the cypher celebrates the radical examples of masculinities in working-class communities, particularly in South Africa, seeking to clarify the forces that shape these, and explore the trauma and healing. The organisers said that they seek to affirm the importance of social and political consciousness as a means to enlighten grassroots communities, as in the Struggle against apartheid, which has a key role to play in building a more inclusive future. Adwa Movement - PRO and Africa Unite peer educator, Ras Hein, shared some insight into the motive behind not only the Kriel screening, but also their previous screening of 'Soundtrack to a Coup d'État' on July 4, and their forthcoming one focusing on Göran Hugo Olsson's 2014 documentary 'Concerning Violence' on July 15. 'We're doing it for the African renaissance. We're doing it for social cohesion. We're doing it to combat narratives of xenophobia.'
Tahawul Tech
04-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Tahawul Tech
Daniel Wagner Archives
The game draws inspiration from Ethiopia's historic victory at the Battle of Adwa, and the cultural and historical elements of the game strike a chord with the gaming community.
Tahawul Tech
04-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Tahawul Tech
Conversational AI Archives
The game draws inspiration from Ethiopia's historic victory at the Battle of Adwa, and the cultural and historical elements of the game strike a chord with the gaming community.
Tahawul Tech
04-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Tahawul Tech
Rezolve AI Archives
The game draws inspiration from Ethiopia's historic victory at the Battle of Adwa, and the cultural and historical elements of the game strike a chord with the gaming community.
