(Orthodox Christian Blog from South Africa)
Tales from Dystopia is a series of blog posts I am writing of memories of the apartheid era in South Africa.I started it because of some comments made by some South African Christian bloggers about the need to remember history so that we are not tempted to repeat the mistakes of the past. Some were also too young to remember what the apartheid era was really like. And some noted a tendency of some, even those who had lived through it, to say that it was not so bad, and that it had good intentions, and that in any case we should forget about the past and “move on”.
But it is not so easy to “move on” if we forget about the past, because the past is also a great weight to which we are tethered, which keeps us from “moving on”.
So here are some memories. They are just one person’s memories, but if others follow a similar idea and write about their own memories, we may get a fuller picture, and be better able to come to terms with the past.
If you don’t have a blog, it is quite easy to start one at sites like WordPress or Blogger, and just start recording your memories of the time. and encourage others to do so as well. Many of those who struggled against the evil of apartheid are dead, and their stories perhaps did not get recorded in the history books, but they live on in the memories of others, and those others can record them and share them in blogs.
- Tales from Dystopia I: Epukululo Lovawambo
- Tales from Dystopia II: Enemies of the State
- Tales from Dystopia III: Theological education in a totalitarian state
- Tales from Dystopia IV: Dennis Brutus and political interference in sporting affairs
- Tales from Dystopia V: Sophiatown and ethnic cleansing
- Tales from Dystopia VI: 1960 was a very bad year
- Tales from Dystopia VII: Amazing grace
- Tales from Dystopia VIII: Deportation from Namibia
- Tales from Dystopia IX: SACC Consultation on Racism 11-14 February 1980
- Tales from Dystopia X: The banality of evil
- Tales from Dystopia XI: Deacons and total onslaught
- Tales from Dystopia XII: Vorsterism, sabotage and liberalism
- Tales from Dystopia XIII: Police riot in cathedral
- Tales from Dystopia XIV: Holy Cross, Onamunama
- Tales from Dystopia XV: When Vorster came to Maritzburg
- Tales from Dystopia XVI: The SB
- Tales from Dystopia XVII: Ethnic cleansing and Christian objections to it.
- Tales from Dystopia XVIII: Europeans are cordially invited
- Tales from Dystopia XIX: Ethnic cleansing and a Christian community
- Tales from Dystopia XX: The churches and political prisoners
- Tales from Dystopia XXI: Capitalism and Alcoholism
- Tales from Dystopia XXII: Apartheid and me
- Tales from Dystopia XXIII Academic Freedom and university apartheid
You can see also
How “White” is the Orthodox Church?
Orthodox Mission in Tropical Africa (& the Decolonization of Africa)
Grace and “the Inverted Pyramid”
Weak, Sick, Poor, Tired: A Story for Losers
The Kingdom of Heaven, where racial discrimination has no place
"THE WAY" - An Introduction to the Orthodox Faith
"Universal healthcare is theft": Capitalism vs Christianity
The Church as the Liberated Zone: "All we Christians are terrorists..."
Giving Thanks for All Things – The Cruciform Life The Orthodox Church in South Africa
Orthodox South Africa (tag)
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