History Matters

May 21 2012 at 11:11am By Mary Corrigall Mary Corrigall FOR almost as long as heads of state have been the subject of official commissioned portraits they have been the subject of unsolicited satirical representations. Naturally, the former is designed to portray the leader in the best light as possible. In the case of the [...]

What started out as a simple memoir he was planning to leave his grandchildren one day has now developed into a book, written by Dr Sedick Isaacs, 72. Isaacs was a political activist and prisoner incarcerated on Robben Island in 1963, for 12 years. However, in 1969 his sentence was increased for operating a pirate [...]

May 6 2012 at 09:36am By Donwald Pressly. Comment on this story Independent Newspapers Declaring that her ministry was not “a Hollywood” set, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Tina Joemat-Pettersson instigated a trail of destruction through her department on Friday by suspending the acting deputy director-general in charge of the fisheries sub-department, allegedly on the [...]

Source: http://www.timeslive.co.za/sundaytimes/2012/05/06/the-forgotten-toll-road by John GI Clarke | 06 May, 2012 00:54 Until South Africa heeds the lessons from e-tolling nightmares in Gauteng and beyond, it will be condemned to repeat them The Gauteng e-tolling saga has become a disaster of titanic proportions for Sanral CEO Nazir Alli. A century after the sinking of the supposedly unsinkable [...]

This is an edited vertion of address by the ANC president, Jacob Zuma, at the memorial lecture for the organisation’s fourth president, Josiah Tshangana Gumede. We meet here during the most important month in the history of our country – April, our Freedom Month, when we celebrate the birth of democracy and freedom in South [...]

Some people are so indistinct, its difficult to imagine that they are there, even when alive.  Others have so much presence, that its impossible to imagine they have gone, even when dead.  Kader Asmal was irrepressible, wonderfully so, at times unrestrainedly provocative.  He engaged lustily with life.  Ever full of spirit, he fought the battle [...]

Newspaper article from Daily Dispatch: Xolobeni – red card greed by NOMBONISO GASA Uhlohlesakhe-khe-khe-khe-khe….! The big voice boomed from the wireless radio of my childhood signalling the beginning of a radio drama about a man who only stuffed his own stomach. That voice had the authority of ringing bells of a Christian church calling believers to pray on a Sunday morning. We, [...]

It is a cruel fact that in the last 15 years the Humanities and the Social Sciences have been severely affected by the dire need to respond to the obvious deficit in engineering, natural scientific, informational and managerial needs.  This downscaling of the importance of the human and social forms of scholarship has had a [...]

Dear Valued Stakeholder Statement by Acting President, Kgalema Motlanthe on the Health of Former President Nelson Mandela Cape Town – Acting President Kgalema Motlanthe on Thursday night released an official statement on the health of former president Nelson Mandela. “There has been mounting concern about the health of the former president Nelson Mandela. We wish [...]