Publisher's Synopsis
Sipho Makhubo, a self-proclaimed revolutionary, was a very peculiar individual with a mind filled with ideologues that have sustained his reasoning capability at a level he assumed to be more superior to those who thought otherwise. As a first year ambitious university student coming from a rural area, which was a lot of kilometres and hours away from his student residence where he dwelled; he felt he had the need to involve himself in radicalism in order to bring about transformation in his place of origin. Although far from completing his higher learning, Sipho already considered himself as a political scientist and he utilized his vigorous youth engaging himself in political organizations around his campus; particularly those that sought to blow up the whole system by labelling the current one as oppressive, exclusionary and marginalizing the poor. He was a very sensitive man, and his sensitivity was evident when a certain view from another individual opposing his was met with limited retaliation from him- if he had to solely depend on the merits of the argument without referring to historical, experiential and personal anecdotes that sought to validate his point as correct just because of who he is. As a millennial in South Africa, a country that gained its true freedom during 1994; he had most of the technological devices and gadgets brought forth by the information age, modernity and globalization that others didn't have neither afford. Sipho oriented his life in a manner that positioned his reason for existence being based on how he was able to cause chaos, and he believed that his own preconceived ideas about how his country should be- had to be obeyed by and implemented in every institution he found himself to be in. If this did not take place he would feel irritated. Whenever he was irritated and angered by such, he would look for those who identified with his ideas within an institution and manipulate them in his cunning but brave revolutionary speeches which often comprised of a few quotes from socialist philosophers he studied in class. He was very good at such, and he justified such an act as positive simply because mobilizing a mass of people to cause chaos and disorder pushes the higher ups to give him what he initially wanted and therefore implement his ideas. He believed he was an intellectual and he hated his own peers who did other courses, especially those who had a defined career destination such as students from the engineering, economics, accounting and natural sciences' departments. According to his logic, such students had to be shunned and looked down upon as they were 'ignorantly' accepting the fact that they had to work for their living, while the rectification of the past injustices of resource accumulation and exploitation has not as of yet taken place. He labelled such students as 'sell-outs' who were scared to speak up and do something about their inherent oppression. What he liked mostly about himself was that he was too smart to the point where he could get away with anything, even when he was pursuing his own selfish ends at the expense of another person's happiness.
