Dr sam motsuenyane autobiography of a yogi dog

By Dr Reuel J. If we accept, as indeed we must, that Apartheid was in a real sense a monstrous double-headed hydra: on the one hand, politics of dispossession, disenfranchisement, discrimination, oppression and suppression; and on the other, economics of black impoverishment and exploitation, we have to acknowledge that to slay a monster a two-pronged approach was absolutely essential.

Simultaneous with the political wars of liberation waged from the s to the advent of our democracy, an economic war of emancipation was waged on various fronts. Foremost among leaders of the latter struggle was one Dr Sam Motsuenyane.

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We can say, without any fear of contradiction that Sam Motsuenyane leadership life defined an era in South African economic history. Valuable lessons were learnt from these initiatives by those who care to observe and learn. Apart from the practical feats we could spend days regaling audiences about the life and times of Dr Motsuenyane, the nation owes him a debt of gratitude for being the quintessential expression of seriti, a concept almost impossible to translate into English.

Bre re leboga boetapele bja seriti. Together with mme Motsoenyane le batho ba setho, batho ba botho, batho ba batho. For that our gratitude knows no limits. The injunction to lift others as you yourself rise is widely understood and deeply felt in all our communities. It is an extension, of course, of the Ubuntu ethic that a person is a person because of other people, or as they say in Sesotho, Motho Ke motho ka batho babang.