FunkItImWalking CONNECTS THE DOTS WITH SOPHIATOWN, AND GAZA,PALESTINE THROUGH THE FIRST THURSDAY NIGHT WALK. – Fashion Force Africa Magazine
It was February 1955, and the apartheid government of South Africa resolved to forcibly remove any racially and culturally integrated community. They, could not, be.
Sophiatown had different races and religions living alongside each other and thriving. The music has become our timeless classics. Letta Mbulu, Bra Hugh, Caiphus, Dorothy Masuku and Miriam Makeba gracing stages in this treasure trove of peace. The community was strong, across religion and color, people saw each other. They babysat each other’s children and shared a love that aggravated the apartheid government, in conflict with its “divide the people and conquer the resources”.
They would arrive at dawn or dusk to remove a pimple on their plan for occupation and complete control and benefit from the country’s minerals and resources. The school they went to, the home that raised them, the community that molded, clearly did not instill in them the human culture of sharing, of communal growth and development. It took them a long 8-year period to disappear Sophiatown.
Today we watch in debilitating anxiety at what is happening in Gaza, Palestine. As was with South Africa’s apartheid government, in Gaza, the land is worth killing children, murdering mothers, worth genocide.
On the 1st of February 2024 #FunkItImWalking will be having their #FirstThursdayNightWalk in Sophiatown to learn the history of forced removals in South Africa while also putting the spotlight on the atrocities of forced removal and genocide in Palestine, not only from the 7th of October 2023, this forced removal and annihilation of a people, began decades ago.
#SoWhereTo was a popular slogan during the forced removals of Sophiatown but today we ask, #SoWhereTo after Palestine is occupied, if we let it be occupied? A Zionist empire that seeks to eliminate Arab states surrounding Palestine, a new way of life which has no regard for human life? #SoWhereTo as we reflect on the inefficiency and damaging nature of capitalism as it rapes the earth of resources to the benefit of a miniscule elite
It is time for us to unite in solidarity. We are Palestine. We are the oppressed and the hungry, our hunger, manifested, by the greed of a few.
Join us on the 1st of February as we explore and learn the story of Sophiatown, engaging about the parallels with Palestine, with Congo, with Sudan with inequality.
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