History Matters

Keynote Address by SACP General Secretary and Minister of Higher Education and Training Dr Blade Nzimande at the Yusuf Dadoo Centenary Conference University of Johannesburg 4 September 2009 The chairperson, Cde Omar Badsha University of Johannesburg Vice Chancellor, Professor Ihron Rensberg, Honoured guests and conference participants, Comrades and friends, At the outset let me take [...]

What to make of the war of words that has erupted between Jonathan Jansen and Jessie Duarte? Briefly, ANC spokesperson Duarte is demanding that recently installed University of the Free State Rector Jonathan Jansen apologise for calling Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga a “lazy and incompetent minister, if one takes into account her record as [...]

allAfrica.com: South Africa: False Narrative Feeds a Potentially Ruinous Respect for Unions (Page 1 of 1) Michael Kransdorff And Marian Tupy Business Day (Johannesburg)17 July 2009 Johannesburg — WHETHER under apartheid or democracy, SA’s politicians have always liked to admonish the country’s businessmen. Apartheid politicians believed corporate profit-making undermined white baasskap, while SA’s current rulers [...]

The Sunday Times July 4th 2009 Too much emphasis on suffering and sacrifice can leave a hard residue of victimhood and entitlement We Are a nation-in-the-making and we cannot afford to squander our assets. Our knowledge about ourselves — our identity as a nation — depends on our understanding of our past and how others [...]

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John Saul I have been, for most of my adult life, a student of southern African, including South African, affairs, I was pleased but also intrigued to receive an invitation from Ingrid and the South African Association of Canadian Studies to come to SA to give several talks and seminars in this country (and also [...]

  AN OPEN LETTER by Esau du Plessis (formely coordinator of the Boycott Outspan Action),   to Sietse Bosgra, author of the report the Road to Democracy in South Africa, Volume 3, International Solidarity Part 1, published by South African Democracy Education Trust (SADET). My open letter is therefore directed both to Sietse Bosgra and [...]