strini moodley on the solution
The one thing nobody wants to appreciate is that human beings have the capacity to decide what they want to do, when they want to do it. The problem we’ve had is that everybody seems to think that they know how to control people. All I’m saying is that if you are brave enough, and I think that counts a lot - if you’re brave enough - but also, if you sit down and plan properly, you can translate anything into a success.
The point about it is we have hooked ourselves for so long into texts that try to design for us how a revolution occurs. And every revolution that has occurred, the people who won wrote it the way they wanted to write it. Whether it was in the Soviet Union with the Communist Party, they wrote it the way they wanted to write it. It actually might not have happened that way. The ANC has rewritten the whole struggle of this country the way they want it to happen. And the point about it is you go anywhere in the world and you’ll see it like that.
From my point of view it’s good Black Consciousness has been written out of the struggle. Because if it was written in then we’re part of the problem. Now we’re still part of the solution.
interview with strini moodley, 2005, in biko lives!
edited by andile mngxitama, amanda alexander, and nigel gibson
palgrave macmillan
November 4th, 2009 at 11:22 pm
Excellent! Thank you.