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I am the First Accused.

I hold a Bachelor's Degree in Arts and practised as an attorney in Johannesburg for a number of years in partnership with Oliver Tambo. I am a convicted prisoner serving five years for leaving the country without a permit and for inciting people to go on strike at the end of May 1961.

At the outset, I want to say that the suggestion made by the State in its opening that the struggle in South Africa is . . . . . . . .  . . . . . . . . . . .

.......................................................cont. reading on   the blog "I am prepared to die"

Steven Bantu Biko (18 December 1946 – 12 September 1977)

  "Black man, you are on your own."
Slogan coined by Steve Biko for the South African Student's Organisation, SASO.

"So as a prelude whites must be made to realise that they are only human, not superior. Same with Blacks. They must be made to realise that they are also human, not inferior."
As quoted in the Boston Globe, 25 October 1977.

"You are either alive and proud or you are dead, and when you are dead, you can't care anyway."
On Death, I Write What I Like, 1978

"The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed."
Speech in Cape Town, 1971

"The basic tenet of black consciousness is that the black man must reject all value systems that seek to make him a foreigner in the country of his birth and reduce his basic human dignity."
From Steve Biko's evidence given at the SASO/BPC trial, 3 May 1976.

"Being black is not a matter of pigmentation - being black is a reflection of a mental attitude."
The Definition of Black Consciousness, I Write What I Like, 1978.

"Merely by describing yourself as black you have started on a road towards emancipation, you have committed yourself to fight against all forces that seek to use your blackness as a stamp that marks you out as a subservient being."
The Definition of Black Consciousness, I Write What I Like, 1978.

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Matric 2016

Posted by Hailie Nene on Wednesday, January 18, 2017,
Whats Next

Visit: www.hailienene.com 
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Matric Class of 2013

Posted by Haile Nene on Thursday, November 21, 2013,
It is that time of the year again when hundreds of thousands of young adults are about to leave what they know as life to venture into a totally different world. Life after matric is never a pre-scriptured play, everything you thought you knew changes. Life as you know it changes.
An advise from a young adult herself........... don't let the glossy world out there hinder your plans. Keep your attitude, beliefs and values in check. For the young ladies out there, always be on the look, remembe...
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To the Father of Humanity

Posted by Hailie Nene on Sunday, July 7, 2013,
Long Live Tata!!!!

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Feelings

Posted by Hailie Nene on Friday, March 1, 2013,
It only takes a second to someone how you feel about them.
The police call it indecent exposure, but whatever.............

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New Year's Blessings

Posted by Hailie Nene on Wednesday, January 23, 2013,
This is my first time writing something this year..2013.. Obviously I would like it to be something profound which will leave a lasting impression for the entire year. However, those profound big statements are not for everyone. I am just an ordinary being, who thinks ordinarily. Therefore, the least I can say is that ....."I wish you all a wonderful year. May every effort you make over the year be fruitful and may the Lord Our Creator be with you through thick and thin. Even if  it feels as ...
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Number One Sport

Posted by Hailie Nene on Saturday, December 29, 2012,
 A woman, while touring a small South American country was shown a bullfight.

The guide told her, "This is our number one sport."

The horrified woman said, "Isn't that revolting?"

"No," the guide replied, "revolting is our number two sport."
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10 Husbands, Still a Virgin

Posted by Hailie Nene on Thursday, December 27, 2012,
10 Husbands, Still a Virgin

A lawyer married a woman who had previously divorced ten husbands.

On their wedding night, she told her new husband, "Please be gentle, I'm still a virgin."

"What?" said the puzzled groom.

"How can that be if you've been married ten times?"

"Well, Husband #1 was a sales representative: he kept telling me how great it was going to be.

Husband #2 was in software services: he was never really sure how it was supposed to function, but he said he'd look i...

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Merry Xmas

Posted by Hailie Nene on Tuesday, December 25, 2012,
To all those who have made this day a memorable day to the few, may God bless the them. Merry Xmas and have a prosperous New Year

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Living a dream

Posted by Hailie Nene on Monday, December 10, 2012,

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Thought for the day

Posted by Hailie Nene on Monday, December 10, 2012,
" If the ugly duckling had never had the courage to look into the pond and face what he truly was, he would never have discovered that he was actually a beautiful swan."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Gary Anderson --- Illinois

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Just a Thought

Posted by Abanah Sthenjwa on Monday, December 10, 2012,

Don’t get me wrong, but really, if experience equals arrogance, I am then better off without it. I understand that everything these days revolves around experience. When you apply for a job, they ask you for experience. Well, that what I would do as well if I had a company. Apart from the costs associated with experienced people, experience has a number of benefits:

·         You know more

·         You come across issues you have encountered in the past so it takes shorter time to re...


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Robert Kennedy

Posted by Hailie Nene on Sunday, December 9, 2012,

But suppose God is black? What if we go to Heaven and we, all our lives, have treated the Negro as an inferior, and God is there, and we look up and He is not white? What then is our response?
Robert Kennedy


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Nelson M

Posted by Hailie Nene on Sunday, December 9, 2012,

I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man.
Nelson Mandela
Read more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/black.html#g6IoSVSpZzaWcmBq.99


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Maya Angelou

Posted by Hailie Nene on Sunday, December 9, 2012,

As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.
Maya Angelou


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I Write What I Like.Part 2

Posted by Hailie Nene on Saturday, December 8, 2012,

"It becomes more necessary to see the truth as it is if you realise that the only vehicle for change are these people who have lost their personality. The first step therefore is to make the black man come to himself; to pump back life into his empty shell; to infuse him with pride and dignity, to remind him of his complicity in the crime of allowing himself to be misused and therefore letting evil reign supreme in the country of his birth."
We Blacks, I Write What I Like, 1978.


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I Write What I Like.Part 1

Posted by Hailie Nene on Saturday, December 8, 2012,

"We do not want to be reminded that it is we, the indigenous people, who are poor and exploited in the land of our birth. These are concepts which the Black Consciousness approach wishes to eradicate from the black man's mind before our society is driven to chaos by irresponsible people from Coca-cola and hamburger cultural backgrounds."
The Quest for a True Humanity, I Write What I Like, 1978.


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I Write What I Like

Posted by Abanah Nene on Saturday, December 8, 2012,

"Black Consciousness is an attitude of the mind and a way of life, the most positive call to emanate from the black world for a long time. Its essence is the realisation by the black man of the need to rally together with his brothers around the cause of their oppression - the blackness of their skin - and to operate as a group to rid themselves of the shackles that bind them to perpetual servitude."
The Quest for a True Humanity, I Write What I Like, 1978.


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I am an African. Pres. Thabo Mbeki

Posted by Abanah Nene on Saturday, December 8, 2012,

On an occasion such as this, we should, perhaps, start from the beginning.

So, let me begin.

I am an African.

I owe my being to the hills and the valleys, the mountains and the glades, the rivers, the deserts, the trees, the flowers, the seas and the ever-changing seasons that define the face of our native land.

My body has frozen in our frosts and in our latter day snows. It has thawed in the warmth of our sunshine and melted in the heat of the midday sun. The crack and the rumble ...


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I have a dream .Martin Luther Jr.

Posted by Abanah Nene on Saturday, December 8, 2012,

Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity.

But 100 years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the...


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I am prepared to die.Part 12

Posted by Hailie Nene on Saturday, December 8, 2012,

The Government often answers its critics by saying that Africans in South Africa are economically better off than the inhabitants of the other countries in Africa. I do not know whether this statement is true and doubt whether any comparison can be made without having regard to the cost-of-living index in such countries. But even if it is true, as far as the African people are concerned it is irrelevant. Our complaint is not that we are poor by comparison with people in other countries, but...


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I am prepared to die.Part 11

Posted by Abanah Nene on Saturday, December 8, 2012,

Our political struggle has always been financed from internal sources - from funds raised by our own people and by our own supporters. Whenever we had a special campaign or an important political case - for example, the Treason Trial - we received financial assistance from sympathetic individuals and organizations in the Western countries. We had never felt it necessary to go beyond these sources.

But when in 1961 the Umkhonto was formed, and a new phase of struggle introduced, we realized...


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I am prepared to die.Part 10

Posted by Hailie Nene on Saturday, December 8, 2012,

The ideological creed of the ANC is, and always has been, the creed of African Nationalism. It is not the concept of African Nationalism expressed in the cry, 'Drive the White man into the sea.' The African Nationalism for which the ANC stands is the concept of freedom and fulfilment for the African people in their own land. The most important political document ever adopted by the ANC is the 'Freedom Charter.' It is by no means a blueprint for a socialist state. It calls for redistribution...


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I am prepared to die.Part 9

Posted by Hailie Nene on Saturday, December 8, 2012,

I wish to turn now to certain general allegations made in this case by the State. But before doing so, I wish to revert to certain occurrences said by witnesses to have happened in Port Elizabeth and East London. I am referring to the bombing of private houses of pro-Government persons during September, October and November 1962. I do not know what justification there was for these acts, nor what provocation had been given. But if what I have said already is accepted, then it is clear that ...


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I am prepared to die.part 8

Posted by Hailie Nene on Saturday, December 8, 2012,

The affairs of the Umkhonto were controlled and directed by a National High Command, which had powers of co-option and which could, and did, appoint Regional Commands. The High Command was the body which determined tactics and targets and was in charge of training and finance. Under the High Command there were Regional Commands which were responsible for the direction of the local sabotage groups. Within the framework of the policy laid down by the National High Command, the Regional Comman...


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I am prepared to die.Part 7

Posted by Hailie Nene on Saturday, December 8, 2012,

As a result of this decision, Umkhonto was formed in November 1961. When we took this decision, and subsequently formulated our plans, the ANC heritage of non-violence and racial harmony was very much with us. We felt that the country was drifting towards a civil war in which Blacks and Whites would fight each other. We viewed the situation with alarm. Civil war could mean the destruction of what the ANC stood for; with civil war, racial peace would be more difficult than ever to achieve. W...


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I am prepared to die.Part 6

Posted by Hailie Nene on Saturday, December 8, 2012,

At the beginning of June 1961, after a long and anxious assessment of the South African situation, I, and some colleagues, came to the conclusion that as violence in this country was inevitable, it would be unrealistic and wrong for African leaders to continue preaching peace and non-violence at a time when the Government met our peaceful demands with force.

This conclusion was not easily arrived at. It was only when all else had failed, when all channels of peaceful protest had been barre...


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I am prepared to die.Part 5

Posted by Hailie Nene on Saturday, December 8, 2012,

The stay-at-home, in accordance with ANC policy, was to be a peaceful demonstration. Careful instructions were given to organizers and members to avoid any recourse to violence. The Government's answer was to introduce new and harsher laws, to mobilize its armed forces, and to send Saracens, armed vehicles, and soldiers into the townships in a massive show of force designed to intimidate the people. This was an indication that the Government had decided to rule by force alone, and this deci...


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I am prepared to die.Part 4

Posted by Hailie Nene on Saturday, December 8, 2012,

During the Defiance Campaign, the Public Safety Act and the Criminal Law Amendment Act were passed. These Statutes provided harsher penalties for offences committed by way of protests against laws. Despite this, the protests continued and the ANC adhered to its policy of non-violence. In 1956, 156 leading members of the Congress Alliance, including myself, were arrested on a charge of high treason and charges under the Suppression of Communism Act. The non-violent policy of the ANC was put ...


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I am prepared to die.Part 3

Posted by Hailie Nene on Saturday, December 8, 2012,

The African National Congress was formed in 1912 to defend the rights of the African people which had been seriously curtailed by the South Africa Act, and which were then being threatened by the Native Land Act. For thirty-seven years - that is until 1949 - it adhered strictly to a constitutional struggle. It put forward demands and resolutions; it sent delegations to the Government in the belief that African grievances could be settled through peaceful discussion and that Africans could a...


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I am prepared to Die. Part 2

Posted by Hailie Nene on Saturday, December 8, 2012,

In the statement which I am about to make I shall correct certain false impressions which have been created by State witnesses. Amongst other things, I will demonstrate that certain of the acts referred to in the evidence were not and could not have been committed by Umkhonto. I will also deal with the relationship between the African National Congress and Umkhonto, and with the part which I personally have played in the affairs of both organizations. I shall deal also with the part played ...


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I am prepared to die . Part 1

Posted by Hailie Nene on Saturday, December 8, 2012,

I am the First Accused.

I hold a Bachelor's Degree in Arts and practised as an attorney in Johannesburg for a number of years in partnership with Oliver Tambo. I am a convicted prisoner serving five years for leaving the country without a permit and for inciting people to go on strike at the end of May 1961.

At the outset, I want to say that the suggestion made by the State in its opening that the struggle in South Africa is under the influence of foreigners or communists is wholly incorr...


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Enshrine Incites

Posted by Hailie Nene on Saturday, December 8, 2012,

PRESENCE

IN-spiration: Presence takes nothing for granted. Presence is the living embodiment of now - a constant state of acceptance of the present moment – which is the greatest gift life has to offer. Presence is the expanded state of awareness you can experience if you tune into what is right here, right now. Birth is the past, death is the future, and life is now. Now you are alive. Presence is the sense you have of this aliveness; it is your absolute experience of this aliveness. It per...


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Anais N

Posted by Hailie Nene on Friday, December 7, 2012,
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
Anais Nin
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Booker T.

Posted by Hailie Nene on Friday, December 7, 2012,

 


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Andre G.

Posted by Hailie Nene on Friday, December 7, 2012,
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
Andre Gide
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Robert L

Posted by Hailie Nene on Friday, December 7, 2012,

 


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Oliver Herford

Posted by Hailie Nene on Friday, December 7, 2012,
A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's: She changes it more often.
Oliver Herford
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Agatha C

Posted by Hailie Nene on Friday, December 7, 2012,

 


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Unknown

Posted by Hailie Nene on Friday, December 7, 2012,
To be poor and dependent is very nearly an impossibility.
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Thought for the Day

Posted by Hailie Nene on Thursday, December 6, 2012,

If you're not lighting any candles, don't complain about being in the dark.

 [Anon]


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It's that time of the year again

Posted by Hailie Nene on Thursday, December 6, 2012,

 


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To U

Posted by Hailie Nene on Wednesday, December 5, 2012,

The art of living doesn’t consist in preserving & clinging 2 a particular mode of happiness but in allowing happiness 2 change its form without being disappointed by the change; happiness is like a child , must be allowed to grow up.

………………Yummy


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Inspiration

Posted by Hailie Nene on Monday, December 3, 2012,
" I've beaten the odds, trounced the gods, overcome all the obstacles. The path to victory is a few miles shy to reach; won't be distracted by a negative speech. I'm focused and determined!"
Copyright © 2012 Larispique Philidor

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How he drowned

Posted by Hailie Nene on Monday, December 3, 2012,

 


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Inspiration

Posted by Hailie Nene on Monday, December 3, 2012,
" Defeated is the man sitting down afraid to get up and take a step; it’s better to stay sitting down and defeated than try to get up and walk. The winner is the man jumping up to run even though he will trip and fall. He keeps getting up to run. One day he will cross that finish line and stand in victory at the end. The winner is the man not afraid to try and try and try."
Copyright © 2012 Janice Harris

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Google Pilots

Posted by Hailie Nene on Sunday, December 2, 2012,

 


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Adventure

Posted by Hailie Nene on Sunday, December 2, 2012,

ADVENTURE 

IN-spiration: Adventure is a journey into the unknown. Adventure is not always about experiencing new and exotic places, but about learning to see the familiar in new ways. Adventure is not only about changing the world, but also about changing yourself and in so doing changing reality. Adventure is about discovery, discovery of other - discovery of self. Adventure comes from being faced with the unexpected and having to draw on inner resources and untapped potentials of self that y...


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Dear God

Posted by Hailie Nene on Sunday, December 2, 2012,

 


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Dear God

Posted by Hailie Nene on Sunday, December 2, 2012,

 


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Optimism

Posted by Hailie Nene on Sunday, December 2, 2012,

OPTIMISM

IN-spiration: Optimism uses positive thoughts to create positive realities.  Optimism does not allow for stray thoughts, it consciously and deliberately shepherds thoughts into positive folds. Optimism is a mastery of mind. Optimism knows that what you see is what you get, what you believe is what you experience. Optimism is not confused with sentimentality or idealism. Optimism is clear about reality. Optimism dreams big but keeps it real. Optimism is sober and clear thinking. Optimi...


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Dear God

Posted by Hailie Nene on Sunday, December 2, 2012,

 


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Inspiration

Posted by Hailie Nene on Sunday, December 2, 2012,

POWER

IN-spiration: Power knows its limitations and accepts them. Power turns its enemies into its greatest allies. Power knows that a weakness recognised, is strength in disguise. Power knows that what you are and how you are - is more important that what you have or who you are. Power does not judge a book by its cover. Power does not invest in or fear superficial appearances. Power respects only the authentic truth. Power knows that all are born equal but that equality and equivalence is no...


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Those internet things

Posted by Hailie Nene on Sunday, December 2, 2012,

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What we are tought as kids

Posted by Hailie Nene on Sunday, December 2, 2012,

 


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00000000001

Posted by Hailie Nene on Sunday, December 2, 2012,

 


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Eish

Posted by Hailie Nene on Tuesday, November 27, 2012,

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Hailie Nene I only have one ambition, y'know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together - black, white, chinese, everyone - that's all. ..........Bob Marley

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 " Go one step ahead, it can bring success for you; there is nothing which comes with zero risk."
Written in 2012 by Saba Hussain

 

I shot an arrow into the air...it fell to earth, I knew not where , so swiftly it flew, the sight could not follow it in its flight.

I breathed a song into the air...it fell to earth, I knew no where, far who has sight so keen & strong that it can follow the flight of song?

Long long afterwards, in an oak I found the arrow still unbroken & the song, from the beginning to the end....I found again the song in the hearth of a friend.....the best friend is like a 4-leaf clover hard to find but lucky to have..........Ymmy

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