Apartheid, land theft and South Africa's fight

Dwayne Wong (Omowale) joined Wise The Dome TV for a long interview on South African apartheid and the land theft behind it. He traces the history from the colonial conquest of the land, describing deliberate attacks on villages and starvation tactics that broke from prior African codes of warfare, through to apartheid. He compares this to the Herero genocide in Namibia and rejects settler claims that the land was empty before European arrival.

The conversation covers apartheid’s racial classification system, which Dwayne ties to South Africa’s study of American Jim Crow and Marcus Garvey’s response to it, and figures often left out of the mainstream story: Winnie Mandela, Steve Biko, Robert Sobukwe and Anton Lembede. It covers global solidarity and artists such as Stevie Wonder, Bob Marley and Peter Tosh, and closes on South Africa’s Expropriation Act, Elon Musk’s family history in apartheid South Africa, and the Economic Freedom Fighters.