The Spark

Heritage – an ambiguous term that transcends the boundaries of indoctrinated perspective, one that rests on opinion purely to highlight a commonality amongst people, a similarity amongst a diverse nation and most importantly a chance to openly reminisce on one’s undiluted history. Some may seem to assume that this message then seeks to support the claim that individuality is a sine quo non for the expression of heritage and indigenous pride, which may be true as envisioned by the founders of Apartheid who strongly aligned with stratified freedom through individual autonomy. The mention of the word “Apartheid” can certainly assert that the theory is therefore not valid but that is not where the crux of this contextualization rests or rather begins. This conversation begins by understanding that Heritage is defined the same but comprehended differently. Unlike organizations, society does not have a sole interpreter of philosophical concepts, hence people are always yearning to ...

SASCO in the University of Fort Hare is a shadow of its former self due to a litany of issues. One of those issues is a decline in ideological understanding. SASCO is a representation of movement that started on a revolutionary path, but due to interactions and alliances with bourgeois power structures they have become reformist. This is the case at a national level, and also at an institutional level. The decline of ideological understanding can be located in the development of a student aristocracy. The development of a student aristocracy over the past 28 years has led to SASCO being a brake in the student movement, and the biggest reformist/sellout organization in the broad politics of the higher education sector. This development of SASCO cannot be dislocated from the decline of the YCL and the ANCYL. It is public knowledge that these three organizations have an alliance (Progressive Youth Alliance) which seeks to unite the youth behind the banner of the politics of the tripartite...