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A trio reclaiming blackness and black spirituality: A tribute to Vuyani Vellem [PDF]

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2022
Issues related to racism are still pervasive in global society; and Blackness has dominated identity politics in the South African political and public debates since the downfall of apartheid.
Buhle Mpofu, Lethabo M. Molopyane
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Ubufundisi bonyana womgquba: In memoriam of Vuyani Shadrack Vellem [PDF]

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2022
Vuyani Vellem was a distinguished scholar of black theology of liberation. A number of giants of black scholarship and theologians have written constructive tributes in recognition of his work, particularly in academia.
Wonke Buqa
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A reflection on Vuyani Vellem’s longing for liberation: A spirituality of life and freedom [PDF]

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2020
Vuyani Vellem was insistent on fostering a spirituality that could ground and sustain resistance of death as expressed in multiple unfreedoms, and the quest for life and freedom in abundance. After naming a number of themes evident in the life of Vuyani –
Stephan F. de Beer
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Wither black theology of liberation? Perspectives from the late Professor Vuyani Vellem [PDF]

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2020
The future of a black theology of liberation (BTL) has been in question since the demise of apartheid in South Africa. The constitution of democracy in the country has raised questions about the relevance and purpose of such a theology in the wake of a ...
Jerry Pillay
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Tiyo Soga: Violence, disruption and dislocation in the white polis [PDF]

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2016
Tiyo Soga must be celebrated as he is the personification of a body of knowledge pertinent to the development of foundational knowledge in examining the violence, disruptions and dislocations of the bodies, knowledge and spirit in modernity. The question
Vuyani Vellem
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Ubuntu as a spirituality of liberation for black theology of liberation [PDF]

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2021
This article aims to respond to Vuyani Vellem’s challenge to black theology of liberation (BTL) to ‘think beyond rethinking and repeating its tried and tested ways of responding to black pain caused by racism and colonialism’.
Sandiswa L. Kobe
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Modern slavery in the post-1994 South Africa? A critical ethical analysis of the National Development Plan promises for unemployment in South Africa [PDF]

Koers : Bulletin for Christian Scholarship, 2014
In African ethics, work is not work if it is not related to God or gods. Work, or umsebenzi, is for God or gods ultimately; work without God is the definition of slavery in my interpretation of the African ethical value system.
Vuyani S. Vellem
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Cracking the Eurocentric Code: A Battle on the Banks of the ‘New Blood Rivers’ [PDF]

Missionalia: Southern African Journal of Missiology, 2019
Belief in divine privilege or God’s creation of a volk is fundamental a motif in the propulsion of the superiority of one race against another in the world, ipso facto, the continuous management of systems of knowledge, authority, economics, and a ‘world
Vellem, Vuyani
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Ambivalence and the unsettling aftershocks: Postcolonial perspectives on Vellem’s spirituality [PDF]

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies
Addressing a myriad of complex social, economic and political issues in the South African context requires that we draw from a variety of voices. This postcolonial reflection draws on the work of Vuyani Vellem’s African spirituality to highlight how it ...
Buhle Mpofu
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The Black Atlantic as reversal: A reappraisal of African and black theology [PDF]

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2017
In this article, I will try to do three things. Firstly, pay attention to the notion of Black Atlantic as coined by Paul Gilroy, which in effect could signify a reversal of colonialism and slavery.
Hans Engdahl
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