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| Type | Political journal |
|---|---|
| Format | Online |
| Publisher | Musuku Africa (pty)ltd |
| Editor-in-chief | Mmbara Hulisani Kevin |
| Launched | 2009 |
| Political alignment | Pan-Africanism |
| Language | English |
| City | Johannesburg |
| Country | South Africa |
| Price | Free |
| Website | www |
Mayihlome News is an online political journal published fromSouth Africa. Mayihlome News was launched in 2009, on a freeWordPress platform withMmbara Hulisani Kevin as Editor in Chief. On 16 February 2015,Mayihlome News moved from the freeWordPress platform to a self-hosted platform and registered a unique domain.[1] Mayihlome News also rebranded introducing the Man in the Green Blanket in its branding in honour of the leader of theMarikana Miners who were massacred bySouth African Police Service on 16 August 2012. A news section onMayihlome News which was aimed at encouraging community journalism was discontinued due to lack of consistent content. Articles published onMayihlome News are submitted by "students, workers, struggle veterans, revolutionary academics, historians, cultural activists, social activists and other constituencies involved in the struggle for the emancipation of mankind from the yoke of capitalism in all its forms".[2]
Mayihlome News was launched at the InauguralMayihlome Lecture at Hotel 224 in Pretoria, South Africa, on 30 May 2009. The lecture was organized by thePan Africanist Youth Congress, a youth wing of thePan Africanist Congress of Azania, at the time led by the current editor of Mayihlome News,Mmbara Hulisani Kevin. The Keynote address for the lecture was delivered by the formerPan Africanist Congress of Azania leaderPhilip Kgosana, popularly known for leading a 30 000 men march in Cape Town at the age of 23 on 30 March 1960.[3] The main lecture was delivered by the formerPan Africanist Youth Congress President, Matome Mashao.[4]
Mayihlome News was launched on the popularWordPress platform and used the blogging capabilities of the platform to publish feature articles whereas news articles and current affairs articles were published in pages format.
Following the launchMayihlome News published its first feature article titled "The Epic Story of June 16 Uprising" on 12 June 2009. The article sought to provide facts regarding the 16 June 1976 students protests and the fact thatPan Africanist Congress of Azania leaders led byZephaniah Mothopeng were prosecuted for these uprising in secret trials known as the "Bethel Trial".[5]
On 13 February 2010 Mayihlome News was invited and participated in the "I Publish What I Like" seminar inJohannesburg hosted byKhanya College andEbukhosini Solutions in celebration ofAfrica Month 2010.[7] Mayihlome News EditorMmbara Hulisani Kevin was part of the panel discussions alongside other black South African publishers likeAndile Mngxitama ofFrank Talk andRose Francis ofAfrican Perspectives Publishing.[8]
On 8 April 2010 Mayihlome published what would be its last News Article under its News section titled "CHICKENS ARE COMING HOME TO ROOST" which was issued by thePan Africanist Youth Congress PresidentLinda Kwame Ndebele.[9] The article followed the murder ofAWB leaderEugene Terrenblanche who was 'hacked to death at home at home by workers'. The articled called for "rural farm workers to stand up and defend themselves against racists and oppressors like Terreblanche."[10]
On 13 October 2010 one of Mayihlome News contributors and struggle veteran,Khoisan X formerly Benny Alexander, died following a stroke.[11][12]
Initially,Mayihlome News also featured an Events section and on 16 October 2010 the last event which was the 2ndMayihlome Lecture was published and the section was discontinued.[13]
Mayihlome News published a modest number of feature articles and news articles between June 2009 and February 2015. A report from 2012 indicated that in the year 2012 only 24 feature articles, a modest 40,000 views from around 160 countries. The number 24 on feature articles excluded news articles and current affairs articles.[14]
In 2013Mayihlome News grew modestly with 36 feature articles, 72 000 views and visits from 171 countries.[15]
In 2014Mayihlome News published 36 feature articles and attracted 82 000 views with visits from 175 countries.[16]
On 16 February 2015Mayihlome News moved to a self-hostedWordPress platform and started using the domainwww.mayihlomenews.co.za. In this move sections of Mayihlome News were phased out includingEvents andNews.[17]
At the height of the#FeesMustFall movement led by students from a number of universities inSouth Africa, Mayihlome News published a number feature articles offering a pan-africanist perspective on the student fees and decolonization issue.[18] On the evening of 21 October 2015 Mayihlome News team joined the students at Wits University as per pictures posted onMayihlome News Facebook Page.[19]
Mayihlome News published its first poem on 24 September 2016 with a poem by struggle veteran Jaki Seroke titled "Sing Sibongile".[20]
On 9 February 2017 Mayihlome News published its first cartoon by its resident cartoonist Thapelo Baloyi.[21]
The Inaugural Mayihlome Lecture keynote speaker[22] andPAC Veteran,Phillip Kgosana, died on 20 April 2017.Phillip Kgosana was well known for leading "30,000 African demonstrators who marched into the centre of Cape Town on 30 March"[23] following theSharpville Massacre.
Mayihlome News is "committed to democratic principles of self-determination, equality, justice, common ownership of the means of economic production, equitable sharing of wealth creation and consumption and an end to exploitation of man by man for the benefit of the few at the expense of the sweat, toil and blood of the working class masses. Ours is a cause for the creation of a socialist society".[24] Mayihlome News is also notably Pan-African in content and also due to the fact that it was launched out of thePan Africanist Youth Congress andPan Africanist Congress of Azania programmes.
| Year | Article | Author |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | "The ANC of today is only 57 years not 100 years"[25] | Dr. Motsoko Pheko |
| 2013 | "The Mandela Deception"[26] | Yamkela Fortune Spengane |
| 2014 | "EUROPE IS BLACKMAILING AFRICA TO GO HOMOSEXUAL!"[27] | Dr. Motsoko Pheko |
| 2015 | "The Mandela Deception"[28] | Yamkela Fortune Spengane |
| 2016 | "The violent shall take it by force" – Thoughts on the Student Movement | Dzumbu Mmbara |
| 2017 | "QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ON SOUTH AFRICA’S NATIVE LAND ACT 1913" | Dr. Motsoko Pheko |
Mayihlome News was launched at the 1st Mayihome Lecture on 30 May 2009 atHotel 224,Pretoria. The Keynote address was given by the formerPan Africanist Congress of Azania leader and struggle veteran,Philip Kgosana. The main lecture was delivered by the formerPan African youth Congress President Matome Mashao.[29]
The second Mayihlome Lecture was held atCentral University of Technology,(Welkom Campus),Free State on 30 October 2010 under the theme "The Struggle for Economic Liberation in Neocolonial Times”. The keynote address was delivered by renowned "Policy analyst, social entrepreneur, senior executive, thought leader and social activist",[30]Liepollo Lebohang Pheko.
