AUI will be embarking on an anti Black on Black violence campaign to create awareness, pledge support and solidarity to our people.
AUI will be embarking on an anti Black on Black violence campaign to create awareness, pledge support and solidarity to our people through pamphleteering, posters, negotiations (mediation), seminars, public forums, workshops and building programs. Starting at Makhaza township this month where it is rife. Our neighbourhoods have been plagued by fear after a series of gang violence that has claimed countless young Black lives in a severe and indescribable manner, where brother plays executioner to another brother to a point of numbness and bestiality. We have also discovered that there are forces behind this animalization of our young Blackman in gangs in a form of demonic possessions that enhances power and brutality to defeat the enemy. The police have proven to be unreliable and untrustworthy in this circumstance while the mass media has downplayed the magnitude of the problem happening in these affected areas:
- Khayelitsha
- Makhaza
- Site B
- Site C
- Makhaya
- Nkanini
- Ndlovini
- Chris Hani
- Crossroads
- Nysngs East
- Gugulethu
- Langa
- Mfuleni
We will also dispel the myth of gangsterism by redefining our experiences the way they are, not the way they are presented to us hence we call it Black on Black violence, so that our people may know the implications of self hatred violence and also where does it emanate from, not this Hollywood romanticism of gangsters paradise. We want to conscientize our people about the white supremacist agenda in trying to obliterate the Black race through violence, disease, famine, abortion, materialism, miseducation, drugs, etc.
“A strong political and cultural consciousness will be used to reawaken our spirits, we will galvanise the youth to take pride in themselves as Black people using history as a weapon of emancipation.”
AUI wants to create strong ties with the communities in improving our lives with pragmatic and sustainable solutions like self employment/ reliant projects. We have approached a number of Traditional healers and leaders respectively to intervene in this dilemma to assist in trying to calm the parents and play a role as the custodians of African culture. A resource centre will be built in Gugulethu Township to educate and mobilize the youth to take decisive and progressive actions. This onslaught will be tackled by engaging numerous grassroots, civic, cultural and spiritual organizations in the areas.
- Get up stand up Africa
- Inkululeko in Minds
- PAC of Azania
- Culdtram -traditional leaders
A strong political and cultural consciousness will be used to reawaken our spirits, we will galvanise the youth to take pride in themselves as Black people using history as a weapon of emancipation. Violent pictures and documentaries will be used to inspire and inform our people as a historical point of reference. The idea is to restore dignity and mightiness of our kind using culture and history to reaffirm our Blackness and royalty.
