Exposing Total Strategy
July 11, 2011
Nationalisation and the Freedom Charter by Raymond Suttner
Recent calls for nationalisation of mines and expropriation of land without compensation have evoked a sense of anxiety and discomfort in sections of South African society, the international financial sector and observers of South Africa’s policy processes. These ideas are said to be to be based on the Freedom Charter, adopted by the Congress of the People, on [...]
July 11, 2011
Kader Asmal by Albie Sachs
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 [...]
June 27, 2011
Xolobeni – red card greed by NOMBONISO GASA
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, [...]
June 24, 2011
Charter For Humanities and Social Sciences
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 [...]
June 13, 2011
Côte d'Ivoire: No War, but No Security
Côte d’Ivoire: No War, but No Security AfricaFocus Bulletin Jun 10, 2011 (110610) (Reposted from sources cited below) Editor’s Note “Between May 13 and 25, Human Rights Watch interviewed 132 victims and witnesses to violence by both sides during the battle for Abidjan and in the weeks after Gbagbo’s arrest. Killings, torture, and inhumane treatment [...]
June 10, 2011
The Prevention of Scholarship Bill
By Jane Duncan Christopher McMichael is a PhD candidate in the politics department of Rhodes University. His research investigates the ways in which the international governing body of football, FIFA, used the security arrangements for the 2010 World Cup to cannibalise public funds to the benefit of the Association and its sponsors. South Africa had [...]
June 9, 2011
MaSisulu: A life sermon written through hard, painstaking work
by Raymond Suttner With Ma Albertina Sisulu’spassing, many feel they havelost a political figure, but alsosomeone who meant much more thanthat, who sensitively but where necessary firmly, guided others on a path thatwould help them as human beings.Ma Sisulu was warm and generallysmiling while she hugged and kissed allher children. She combined this withstrict ethical norms [...]
June 6, 2011
Remembering Lewis Nkosi: Exile, Music, Memory
WISER, University of the Witwatersrand Monday June 13 2011 Venue WISER Seminar Room* When Lewis Nkosi passed away on September 6, 2010 at the age of 73, South Africa lost an intellectual and literary voice as unique for its lucidity as its peerless range. Novelist, essayist, critic, playwright, editor, journalist, and scholar, Nkosi earned each [...]
July 11, 2011
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