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Lebohang Charity Matlhare

Self Identifying as a child of Africa, whose ancestors are part and parcel of the African narrative of self-determination. My journey is published here to provide a space of sharing my journey as a child born in the dusty streets of Soweto in 1972, who has come to the realisation that true freedom comes not in running away from who you are. Instead it comes from the cleaving that makes the game of life worth living. The story of African pride and the relevance of Hippocrates in Greek Philosophy has brought me full circle to where I started as a child. Confronted with the reality of seeing what I could not articulate as a child, manifesting again through the same tactics that had been used previously, I realised the urgency for all of us to wake up.

I have woken up to who I am. I am Nobody. Yet those that came before me. They are far greater. And so it is with all of humanity. As the grandchild of the Matlhare-Mngomezulu ancestral marital union, establishing who I follow after was critical for this juncture, say best, this cross-roads in the collective human contract with mother earth. As a Matlhare, I come from a clan of Hippos. They are custodians of the river fishes while the whales of the ocean play an even bigger role. At the same time, the maternal clan side of my family, the "Song of the heavens" ties us to the stolen customs and practices to maintain a system that has corrupted every fibre of our human construct.

I will be using these pages to explore major events in context of the purpose they serve and the relevance of role players in those events to the game of Life. This requires a collation of information that is at first glance seems unrelated, but when context is given its opportunity to balance human response to events and role players, the outcome would always be to expand collective awareness and knowledge integration. Some of the knowledge will be shared by those greater than myself while some of it will be edited by myself and the bridge between us and beyond the veil. In Colonial Privilege Philosophy, where being humane is transformed from something good and admirable to something leaders in our midst, those born from the silent generation, to distract People and Planet Prosperity Philosophy minded people on issues they did not cause to begin with.