ABSTRACT
Since 1995 marked the fiftieth anniversary of the Pan-African Congress in Manchester and much of my analysis of the current situation in South Africa stems from a Pan-Africanist reading of African history, it is necessary to briefly revisit this significant meeting of 1945. The system of Western European rapacity, enslavement, and exploitation extant in colonialism continues today in the system of neocolonialism. Black people in the United States, specifically the Black working class and underclass, are victimized by American racial capitalism, a mammoth system that terrorizes the oppressed peoples of the world and that cannot be toppled by Africans in the United States going at it alone. The question of language in educational policy, as rudimentary as it may seem, is nevertheless an extremely controversial issue in post-apartheid South Africa, particularly in the area of education.
