One of the most fantastic ironies of the black radicals in South Africa is their tendency to embrace ideas inherited from Europe. Racial nationalism, leftism and Azania. Azania was an old Greek epithet referring to the Cushitic lands south of Abyssinia (Ethiopia), before the Bantu expansion crushed and dispersed them. Not only do black radicals seek to use a European word for their country, they are borrowing it from the name of a territory their ancestors eviscerated thousands of years ago before they even showed up in the Southern climes. I for one, am all for a change to the name of our nation, but I tend to favour the name the ordinary people use to refer to it - eMzansi, simply meaning the southland. But I am staunchly against giving into the demands of the genocidally-bent boiler-suit bandits in the EFF, or their Hutu Power colleagues in the BLF and PAC.
The Azanian Delusion, the Mzansian reality
The Azanian Delusion, the Mzansian reality
The Azanian Delusion, the Mzansian reality
One of the most fantastic ironies of the black radicals in South Africa is their tendency to embrace ideas inherited from Europe. Racial nationalism, leftism and Azania. Azania was an old Greek epithet referring to the Cushitic lands south of Abyssinia (Ethiopia), before the Bantu expansion crushed and dispersed them. Not only do black radicals seek to use a European word for their country, they are borrowing it from the name of a territory their ancestors eviscerated thousands of years ago before they even showed up in the Southern climes. I for one, am all for a change to the name of our nation, but I tend to favour the name the ordinary people use to refer to it - eMzansi, simply meaning the southland. But I am staunchly against giving into the demands of the genocidally-bent boiler-suit bandits in the EFF, or their Hutu Power colleagues in the BLF and PAC.