TOTW: RIGHTS, or So This Is How Cassandra Felt

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Many of us define rights as a negative - the act of officially naming them is enough to bind our potential and creativity within them, thus reducing the liberty we would exercise otherwise.
Just as many rely heavily on rights as a foundational principle, sowing discord throughout communities by educating each other with labor rights readers in one hand and "If An Agent Knocks" in the other. 

Breyten Breytenbach: Cosmopolitan anarchist from the Boland

From Mail & Guardian
November 28, 2024

I received the news that Breyten Breytenbach had died on Sunday. That evening we drove up from Dikeni (Alice), where we live, to Hogsback. With me were my wife Irma and our friend Vangile, on a visit from Tshwane.

On our way up the Amathole Mountains, we listened to Breytenbach’s spoken-word album Lady One. His Buddhist chants sounded as if they somehow belonged to the green hills and villages of the Eastern Cape.

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