Fahamu (Oxford)
Website: http://www.pambazuka.org/en/
December 3
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South Africa: Towards Realisation of a Cohesive South Africa [analysis]
The 'rainbow nation' still retains deep social divisions arising from its troubled past and the mixed results of various initiatives over the last 18 years to build a truly... Read more »
November 23
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South Africa: Randela - Coining the Icon
The new bank notes bring the legacy of Nelson Mandela full circle Read more »
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South Africa: ANC Lacks Internal Democracy [analysis]
Democratic participation by the rank and file of the ANC in the December national leadership conference is a charade. A genuinely open system in which members are able to choose... Read more »
November 18
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South Africa: The Politics of Human Dignity [analysis]
Despite living in dehumanising conditions in their own country, the organised shack dwellers of South Africa find dignity in working together to resist their oppression. They build... Read more »
November 9
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South Africa: What Sandy Shows South Africa [opinion]
There are important lessons for South Africa from the hurricane that hit America last week. But nobody in officialdom is ready to admit the dangers posed especially to the Port of... Read more »
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South Africa: Beyond the ANC - A New UDF or a Mass Workers' Party? [opinion]
It seems likely that more South Africans who really care about the future of the country will move beyond the ruling African National Congress (ANC) and start the difficult,... Read more »
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South Africa: From Liberation Movement to State Power - 100 of Years ANC [interview]
Adèle Kirsten, Local Government Action, and Tshepo Madlingozi, Khulumani Support Group, talk about the massacre of Marikana, their ambivalent relationship to the ANC, white... Read more »
November 2
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South Africa: Land Is At the Heart of Our Struggle
Yes, I have to be bold and proud of being South African. But I am not proud because our lovely country is in the wrong hands. Our struggle began with the question of land and land... Read more »
October 26
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South Africa: Marikana's Momentum Still Moves the Masses - but Where? [analysis]
How long can the amazing upsurge of class struggle in South Africa go on? Living here 22 years, I've never witnessed such a period of vibrant, explosive, but uncoordinated worker... Read more »
October 19
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South Africa: Blowing the Whistle on a Decade of Corruption, Greed and Conflict in Badplaas, Mpumalanga [opinion]
Another bombshell is about to be dropped onto South Africa's raging political and legal battlefield and it involves one of the most contentious and emotive issues in our country -... Read more »
October 12
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South Africa: Steve Biko Comes Alive Online
Previously unseen images of South Africa's black consciousness hero Steve Biko have been published by Google, 35 years after his violent death in police custody. Read more »
October 5
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South Africa: A Case for South Africa's Carbon Tax [opinion]
A carbon tax could be one policy instrument to tackle climate change, poverty and unemployment if it is designed and used correctly. Read more »
September 28
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South Africa: Biko - a Bright Guiding Light in Dark Times [document]
Address by the Anglican Bishop of Natal at St Philip's Anglican Church, Fingo Village in Grahamstown, 19 September 2012. Read more »
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South Africa: Protest Politics - the Case of Sweet Home [analysis]
For much of this winter, communities in shack settlements across Cape Town have taken to the streets in some of the most active civil disobedience protests since 1994. Read more »
September 21
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South Africa: The Malling of Africa
Huge shopping malls are spreading social alienation, intensifying economic distortions and amplifying ecological decay. Read more »
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South Africa: Contextualizing farm worker deaths in South Africa and Canada [opinion]
Capitalist agriculture is in crisis, as it marginalizes and brutalizes millions of farm workers who produce our food. The horrible accidents that claimed lives of farm workers in... Read more »
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South Africa: Biko - Great Struggles, Great Spirits [document]
Thirty-five years after his death, marked on 12 September, Steve Biko's legacy remains. In this lecture, celebrated novelist Ben Okri reflects on the meaning of Biko's life and... Read more »
September 14
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South Africa: Marikana, Murder and Journalism [interview]
GroundUp, a community journalism project reporting from South Africa's townships, interviewed investigative journalist Greg Marinovich, who has published shocking findings about... Read more »
July 27
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Africa: Confiscation of Condoms From Sex Workers Compromises Public Health
Throughout the world, in countries as diverse as Kenya, Namibia, Russia, South Africa, the United States, and Zimbabwe, police often confiscate condoms from sex workers to use as... Read more »
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Africa: Dr Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma - Any Real Change At the AU? [opinion]
What difference will the appointment of Dr Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma really make to the African Union and the betterment of people across the continent? Read more »
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South Africa: Remembering Ingelosi Yomhlaba - A Tribute to Muntu Myeza [opinion]
This month marks 22 years since the mysterious passing of Muntu Myeza - a committed member and leader of the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM) in South Africa. Read more »
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South Africa: Call for Boycott of SA Company Complicit in Israeli Occupation
Two South African human rights organizations, BDS South Africa and the Palestine Solidarity Alliance, have thrown their weight behind the consumer boycott of a South African... Read more »
July 20
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South Africa: Surfing South Africa's Micro-Protest Wave [opinion]
South Africa suffers from far too many activists who promote a localist ideology that begins and ends with the municipal councillor, city manager or mayor. There are too many... Read more »
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South Africa: 'The Jews of Our Time?' - Israel's Deportation of the South Sudanese [opinion]
Just prior to the deportations, xenophobic manifestations of Israel's imperative to retain its Jewish majority were clear. Read more »
July 13
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South Africa: Thinking Through Lesbian Rape - The Silence Is Deafening, Crippling and Deadly! [opinion]
Why are our Women leaders silent when children are being killed like animals in South Africa? Read more »
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