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“This is one country where it would be possible to create a capitalist black society, if whites were intelligent, if the nationalists were intelligent. And that capitalist black society, black middle class, would be very effective … South Africa could succeed in putting across to the world a pretty convincing, integrated picture, with still 70 [...]

Thought leader blogger Christi van der Westhuizen slams Zapiro for using rape as a metaphor and thinks that Zapiro and the Sunday Times owe South Africans an apology. BizLinks wonders what all the furore is about and provides some good links for more information about Zapiro, cartoons and the current issues around the Jacob Zuma [...]

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FINALISED SCHEDULE OF LECTURES: September 10 Housing: Grootboom Case Speakers: Judge Dennis Davis, Peter Roman, student from the SSLJ September 17 Accountability: Metrorail – Public Transport Speakers: Judith February, Mr Van Minnen September 24 Health: TAC Case Speakers: Nonkosi Khumalo, Louis Reynolds October 01 Education: 14 years and still no case Speakers: Mamphela Ramphele Representative [...]

Professor Kader Asmal recently delivered the keynote address at the Human Rights Comission in Pretoria, the event focused on “Promoting and Advancing Constitutional Values in South Africa: Challenges and Opportunities”. Download the full text of Prof. Kader Asmal’s keynote address at the Human Rights Commision entitled Language and Excess:Preserving and nurturing the democratic discourse.

“Democracy is not a state in which people act like sheep. Under democracy, individual liberty of opinion and activity is jealously guarded.” – Mahatma Gandhi Earlier this month History Matters advertised a march commemorating 100 years since Mahatma Gandhi’s non-violent protest and burning of passes in Johannesburg in 1908. Kader Asmal recently delivered a public [...]

This reply was written in response to the comment made by Peter in the post Musings in Mzansi: Racism in Cyberspace. Hi Peter, I am going to enter the fray on this one with an account of an experience I had a few months ago, when working with the UNHCR (United Nations High Commission for [...]

In honor of the 25th Anniversary of the founding of the United Democratic Front (UDF), SAHO is pleased to share some rare, historic footage of Dr. Boesak speaking at the UDF West Coast launch. The footage is supplied courtesy of the Community Video Education Trust (www.cvet.org.za).  During the 1980s video activists from CVET recorded Struggle [...]