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Tag Archive | "ANC"
Criticising the Crisis in Education
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 [...]
Continue reading...Elections 2009: Hold your nose and vote?
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
A friend sent me an sms as she was going into the voting booth on April 22nd. “Going to hold my nose and vote”, she said. She was voting for COPE nationally and ID provincially only because she was sure they would not be in government. She detested many of the personalities in Cope, disagreed [...]
Continue reading...Norman Levy on the Congress Of The People
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
By Norman Levy Published 9th December in the Cape Times The idea of the Freedom Charter and the Congress of the People (COP), from which it emanated, had so much potential that it was already seen as of historic importance before either the COP took place or the Freedom Charter was written. The South African [...]
Continue reading...“Astonishing silence from SA leaders on global realities”
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
By Allister Sparks. IT IS a measure of SA’s isolationist mentality that we are preparing for the most important general election of our democratic era against a backdrop of the worst global economic crisis in nearly 100 years, yet that forbidding factor is hardly featuring in our political debate. Jacob Zuma, who is presumably going [...]
Continue reading...ANC Roadmap For Education
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
ANC PRESS RELEASE ANC urges public debate on a Roadmap for Education 16 November 2008 Since April 2007, the ANC Health and Education Committee has been involved in a major policy review of education, implementing the resolutions of the ANC’s 52nd National Conference, held in December 2007. The conference declared education and health major priorities [...]
Continue reading...A sobering view amidst the hype
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Moshoeshoe Monare, Deputy Group Political Editor, Independent News and Media, has written a very apt article (‘Are they putting the country first’, 18 November 2008) about next year’s elections that highlights some of the critical policy issues that are being overlooked on the campaign trail. He writes that, Political parties appear to have been caught [...]
Continue reading...Who can win back the ANC?
Monday, November 17, 2008
The ANC and all informed opinion makers are looking carefully at the split in the ANC and how this will effect the economy of the country which, like the rest of the globe, is facing an economic downturn and severe crisis. The ANC, it seems, is unable to manage the hemorrhaging of a sizeable number of its [...]
Continue reading...Zuma Pays Tribute to Billy Nair
Friday, October 31, 2008
Address by the ANC President Jacob Zuma at the funeral service of Billy Nair Durban Exhibition Centre, 30 October 2008 The family and friends of Comrade Billy Nair, The President of the Republic, Comrade Kgalema Motlanthe Premier of KwaZulu-Natal, Province, Sbu Ndebele, Members of the ANC National Executive Committee, Chairperson of the ANC in the [...]
Continue reading...The future of the state
Monday, October 27, 2008
Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 JEREMY CRONIN: Oct 27 2008 The now-popular idea of a developmental state represents an emerging consensus that we need an active state with the capacity to intervene in the economy to coordinate and drive transformation. Implicit in this consensus is that strategic state-owned enterprises are important. Also implicit is [...]
Continue reading...Angie, chief recruiter for Lekota
Sunday, October 26, 2008
Angie Motshekga the head of the womens league in her interview in the Sunday Times underlines the point that many have been making that some members of the ANC leadership are if not intellectual bankrupt but their views on the role of opposition parties in a democracy could be mistaken for that of a rantings [...]
Continue reading...Order comrades order!
Friday, October 24, 2008
How is it that the ANC – the same ANC which prides itself on discipline, the same ANC who fought for the right to protest freely – allows its supporters to run to ruin the name of the party? IOL reports on the recent disruptions at a rally organised in support of Lekota at Orange [...]
Continue reading...Tribute to Billy Nair
Thursday, October 23, 2008
ANC veteran and stalwart Billy Nair passed away this morning in Durban, after being admitted to hospital last Thursday in a critical condition. SAHO and History Matters salutes Billy Nair for his years of service and dedication to democracy in South Africa. Please feel free to use this space to write tributes or condolence messages [...]
Continue reading...President Zuma, who are the dogs in the ANC?
Monday, October 20, 2008
Comrade President what is becoming of the once proud ANC.? What is happening in the ANC in which you spent the best part of your life, in prison, exile and government? It seems that you are presiding over an army of politically illiterates. We have a leader and member of your NEC and head of the [...]
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Upcoming Events 
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WISER and CISA invite you to a public lecture on
‘The Life and Death of Dr. Abu Baker ‘Hurley’ Asvat, February 23, 1942-January 27, 1989’
By Jon Soske (Centre for Indian Studies in Africa, Wits)
Wednesday, 19th May 2010
18h30WISER Seminar Room, 6th Floor, Richard Ward Building
East Campus, Wits UniversityAt the time of his murder in 1989, Dr. Abu Baker ‘Hurley’ Asvat was widely revered as ‘the people’s doctor’ based on almost two decades of medical work in Soweto and over a dozen health projects initiated across the Transvaal as AZAPO’s Secretary of Health. Yet despite his close relationship with leading ANC figures like Albertina Sisulu and his significant role in major political events, Asvat’s name rarely appears in histories of the liberation struggle and his life’s work has been almost completely overshadowed by the controversial circumstances of his death. This lecture will discuss Asvat’s biography from his childhood in the multiracial Johannesburg neighbourhood of Vrededorp to his medical study and political activism as part of a PAC-aligned student group in Pakistan; from his leading role in non-racial cricket to his emergence as a central figure in Soweto’s life and politics. This talk will also reflect on the relationship between Lenasia and Soweto as social spaces during the years of apartheid and interrogate the ways in which apartheid racial categories—particularly ‘African’ and ‘Indian’—continue to structure how South African historians represent the recent past.
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