Abstract:
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 of skill and memory cannot be
dichotomised in epistemologies of justice—the naming of black as pagan, kaffir, native, bantu,
etcetra, in the history of oppression. Spatial justice, the article argues, is not just about physical
space; it is about spiritual and temporal spaces as well. The linearity of time cannot do justice for
the memory of the conquered. Land, the article argues, by inserting the memory of Tiyo Soga, is
central to spatial justice as long as the ‘wedding’ between the troublesome Bible and the
genocidal, epistemicidal and spirtualicidal forms of knowledge is debunked.
Description:
This research is part of the
research project, ‘Social
Cohesion’, directed by Prof
Dr. Vuyani Vellem of the
Department of Dogmatics
and Christian Ethics, Faculty
of Theology, University of
Pretoria.
