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in, against, beyond corona

what does living through the corona crisis
in South Africa reveal to us?

Mark Butler
with:
Cindy Dennis, Phiwa Xulu, Zodwa Nsibande,
David Ntseng, Graham Philpott, Zonke Sithole,
Nomusa Sokhela, Skhumbuzo Zuma

Church Land Programme (Pietermaritzburg)
& Daraja Press (Ottawa)

Published by
Daraja Press
https://darajapress.com

Church Land Programme

http://churchland.org.za

Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

Title: in, against, beyond corona : what does living through the corona crisis in South Africa
reveal to us? / Mark Butler, with: Cindy Dennis, Phiwa Xulu, Zodwa Nsibande, David Ntseng,
Graham Philpott, Zonke Sithole, Nomusa Sokhela, & Skhumbuzo Zuma.

Names: Butler, Mark, 1966- author.

Description: Series statement: Thinking freedom

Identifiers: Canadiana (print) 2020033364X | Canadiana (ebook) 20200333747 | ISBN 9781988832838 (softcover) | ISBN 9781988832845 (PDF)

Subjects: LCSH: COVID-19 (Disease)Social aspectsSouth Africa.

Classification: LCC RA644.C67 B88 2020 | DDC 362.1962/41400968dc23

Contents

what is padkos?

Afrikaans dictionaries translate padkos as provisions in English. It is made up of two separate Afrikaans words: pad, meaning road; and kos, meaning food. So it describes food for the journey.[1]

Church Land Programmes padkos initiative began in 2010 as an email-list to provide and share some resources for our journey. In the beginning, those resources were limited to written pieces that come from, or connect with, the thinking and reflection that is part of our praxis. Over time, padkos has expanded into a vibrant and varied programme. But the core aims have remained the same, and weve always tried to ensure that the padkos we share is seasonal, locally-grounded, and nutritious.

WHY?

CLP has often spoken of its work as a journey, and we are inspired by Paulo Freires phrase that we make the path by walking. The journey of our work is deeply rewarding, and our main guide and inspiration remains the rebellious struggles of the people. But it is also a long and demanding journey. As we continue together, we all need padkos sustenance and food-for-thought along the way.

CLP makes this padkos available because emancipatory action is always thought; because reflection strengthens struggle; and also because we have been asked to! This initiative is one aspect of our response to requests from friends & members, colleagues & comrades to be fed: to hear from and learn with CLP about its thinking and work.

HOW?

Padkos began as a low-traffic email distribution list for people directly connected with CLP, as well as fellow travelers interested in and supportive of CLPs work. In the beginning, we simply shared written pieces.

In response to the interest the readings generated, we created the palaver where we could get together to focus on a particular issue or paper, and really discuss and digest the richness and challenges. In turn, the palaver then grew into a remarkable programme of padkos events that draws in friends and guests, from across the country and around the world, sharing their work and thinking in interactive discussions at our offices.

We also developed a programme showing films & documentaries that has been really stimulating and enlightening. Watching them together enables us to understand, to learn from, & to make connections with other struggles in other contexts and also with diverse modes of emancipatory organisation and struggle around the globe. We called this aspect of padkos, the bioscope.

Another dimension of the evolving padkos menu incorporated culture as a rich and nourishing part of our food for the journey. Padkosintermission has included creative events featuring, for instance, poetry & art, food & drink and lots of live music.

This material first appeared in the Padkos series, a project of the Church Land Programme (CLP) http://churchland.org.za/.

Dawn of Darkness

Ngg wa Thiongo

March 23, 2020[1]

I know, I know,
It threatens the common gestures of human bonding
The handshake,
The hug
The shoulders we give each other to cry on
The neighbourliness we take for granted
So much that we often beat our breasts
Crowing about rugged individualism,
Disdaining nature, pissing poison on it even, while
Claiming that property has all the legal rights of personhood
Murmuring gratitude for our shares in the gods of capital.

Oh, how now I wish I could write poetry in English,
Or any and every language you speak
So, I can share with you, words that
Wanjik, my Gky mother, used to tell me:
Gtirtuktaka:
No night is so Dark that,
It will not end in Dawn,
Or simply put,
Every night ends with dawn.
Gtirtuktaka.

This darkness too will pass away
We shall meet again and again
And talk about Darkness and Dawn
Sing and laugh maybe even hug
Nature and nurture locked in a green embrace
Celebrating every pulsation of a common being
Rediscovered and cherished for real
In the light of the Darkness and the new Dawn.

https://brittlepaper.com/2020/04/dawn-of-darkness-by-ngugi-wa-thiongo-poetry/

in, against, beyond corona

Introduction

What does living through the corona crisis in South Africa reveal to us? That is the question that frames our thoughts here. Weve been developing this as a kind of document-in-progress as our organisation[1] carefully thinks through this time of COVID-19. We had some time to discuss important elements of this material together in Zoom reflections, in addition to writing, sharing, reading and commenting. But perhaps even in its final form, it will still be more a provocation for deeper reflection and debate.

Reflecting on what is revealed to us, its important to see what is revealed as wrong and toxic in ourselves, in our relations with others, and in our relations with the rest of non-human nature. But its also terribly important to listen for and to seek out what is revealed that is good and life-affirming. Both are vital. During the period we were developing this reflection, we were most likely only at the beginning of the catastrophe that is/was coming according to the most influential models predicting the course of the pandemic. So, we need to sustain ourselves through what is coming, and to recognise, expand and nurture all the good things for a future where were working together, refusing to re-create what was wrong and toxic before.

One starting point for the reflections recorded here was a conversation about whether there might be value in thinking about the Corona crisis through the lens of John Holloways in, against & beyond arguments. Within our organisation, Holloways thinking has been a central focus of our own reflections over the past years. In what follows, there may be echoes of this initial impetus but it is definitely not a systematic or exclusive application of that political framethe process took its own direction which may not have anything to do with that imagined starting point. We cant imagine that Holloway himself would be impressed by some sort of mechanical or dogmatic application of his thought anyway!

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