HeyJaredSipho Mthathi
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- Aug 24, 2026
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- Jul 12, 2026
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Dear Mbokodo: We did not march so women could carry the nation (opens the original)
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This imagined letter places a composite speaker inside the thirty-minute silence of 9 August 1956. It draws on the events of the Womenâs March and the demands articulated by the Federation of South African Women. Sipho Mthathi is a writer and social justice activist with more than 23 years of experience shaping civil society work locally and internationally. Dear Mbokodo, if that is what they are calling you now Something of your voice has reached me. Not the words. Seventy years carry only it
The distance between power and consequence (opens the original)
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The African Unionâs decision not to intervene in Burundiâs 2016 crisis reveals a deeper pattern in continental politics: authority is often furthest from consequence, while responsibility falls on those with the least power. From Burundi to contemporary debates on migration and xenophobia, leadership emerges less as a question of rhetoric than of who is expected to carry the costs of political failure. Sipho Mthathi is a writer and social justice activist with more than 23 years of experienc
Murambatsvina to Mabahambe: The grammar of removal (opens the original)
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Watching buses carry displaced families away from a refugee processing centre in Cape Town, an old Zimbabwean word returned: Murambatsvina. Different histories, different states, but the same political grammar in which people are first removed from the circle of obligation before they are removed from place. Sipho Mthathi is a writer and social justice activist with more than 23 years of experience shaping civil society work locally and internationally. The word came back to me in the days after
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