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December 3
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South Africa: Lady Gaga - an Avatar for Our Times? [analysis]
Madonna modelled herself on a sexually unrestrained, powerful and de-sanitised version of Marilyn Munro and rebelled against patriarchal Catholic constraints of the feminine, using... Read more »
November 29
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South Africa: How Walmart and Other Huge Companies Support Horrific Conditions That Kill Workers [opinion]
Retailers look away as the Bangladeshi government stalks, batters and kills seamstresses and labor activists. Read more »
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South Africa: Dreaming of Our Own Lula Moment [opinion]
We need to draw a clear distinction between redemptive fantasies that, while they may be comforting, ultimately function to legitimate injustice and, on the other hand, redemptive... Read more »
November 28
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South Africa: Writers Block - Motoring Journalists and the Seduction of Power [opinion]
Read any newspaper, magazine or blog about cars and similar symptoms of a pernicious ailment are revealed: big powerful cars are potent, sexy, macho and cool. Green, economical or... Read more »
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Africa: COP 18 Gets Underway in Doha As Kyoto Protocol Winds Down [opinion]
The UN Climate Conference, COP 18, gets underway this week in Doha, as the Kyoto Protocol winds down and is set to expire by the end of this year. COP 18 is unlikely to emerge with... Read more »
November 27
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Egypt: Nation's 'Open-Ended' Revolution [opinion]
Commenting on Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi's move to grant himself sweeping powers that has brought Egyptians back to the streets in protest, Hamid Dabashi, Professor of... Read more »
November 26
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South Africa: How Rape Judgement Failed Vulnerable Children [analysis]
A recent Supreme Court of Appeal judgment has undermined the plight of incest victims who keep quiet about their ordeals after being threatened with death or given tokens by their... Read more »
November 21
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South Africa: Marikana Miner Speaks at London Conference
Tumi Maloi, a striking miner who works at an Amplats shaft close to Rustenburg spoke at the "Unite the Resistance 2012" conference in London (UK) on Saturday, 17 November. He is a... Read more »
November 20
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South Africa: Even the Dead [opinion]
And then, despite the fear, I set off Read more »
November 19
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South Africa: Forestry Workers - Lost in Globalisation [opinion]
Exploitation and pay in the timber industry is the most extreme amongst any commercial sector in South Africa. While mining and agriculture workers have been in the news for... Read more »
November 15
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South Africa: The Farm Workers' Strike - It's Far From Over [analysis]
The mines and the farms are two enduring symbols of old white colonial theft, of the minerals and land. Because of the monopoly of the National Union of Mineworkers, whose leaders... Read more »
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South Africa: Demolishing Homes, Dismantling Dreams, Destroying Lives [opinion]
It was with sheer terror that we witnessed the grotesque spectacle of the bulldozing of fully built brick and mortar houses in Lenasia by government officials last week. Images of... Read more »
November 13
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South Africa: Where's the Public in 'Public-Private Partnerships'? [analysis]
An unsolicited R6.5 billion 'urban renewal' Public-Private Partnership (PPP) between the ANC-run Emakhazeni Municipality in Mpumalanga (which incorporates the small town of... Read more »
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South Africa: The Strike Wave and New Workers' Organisations [opinion]
Over the past weekend, the striking mineworkers of Amplats gathered at a mass rally in Rustenburg and howled their defiance of a series of ultimatums issued by the company. Read more »
November 6
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South Africa: The World Sees Us As Boys and Savages [opinion]
I met Marikana community member, mineworker and activist, Tsepo M, at a coffee shop in Melville. He had some business to attend to in Johannesburg and a colleague set up the... Read more »
November 5
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South Africa: Beyond the Ruling Party - a New Mass Workers' Party? [analysis]
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 »
November 1
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Africa: Land Reform in South Africa - an Unfulfilled Obligation [opinion]
The question of land and agricultural reform in South Africa remains largely unresolved as we head towards the end of our second decade of democracy. It is remarkable that a... Read more »
October 30
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South Africa: 'War Is Upon Us' [opinion]
to the fragrance of lemon blossoms Read more »
October 29
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South Africa: Who Murdered Num Branch Secretary Daluvuyo Bongo? [analysis]
On Friday the 12th of October Zenzile Nyenye and Siyakhele Kwazile were arrested. They have been charged for the murder of Daluvuyo Bongo, the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM)... Read more »
October 26
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South Africa: Greg Smith's Book 'Why I Left Goldman Sachs' Scorned By Corporate Media [opinion]
A Storm of controversy followed ex-Johannesburger Greg Smith after his very public resignation from Goldman Sachs on 14 March 2012 when the New York Times published his resignation... Read more »
October 24
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South Africa: Failing to Protect the Poor Against Crime [opinion]
South Africa continues to be a hazardous place for the Black poor. You don't have to be a Marikana mineworker to die a death that is undignified, if not brutal and terrifying. The... Read more »
October 23
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South Africa: Dealing With the Troubled Political Economy of Mining [opinion]
In many respects "Marikana" represents our own 'Arab Spring'. Read more »
October 22
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South Africa: A Panel Discussion On the Meaning of 'Marikana' Hosted By the Frontline Club in London [opinion]
A panel of South Africans speak at the Frontline Club in London about the meaning of the Marikana massacre. The panel discussion took place on October 17. Read more »
October 19
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Africa: Food Security in Crisis - Lessons for South Africa From Zimbabwe [opinion]
Once again, Zimbabwe is experiencing a drought with famine affecting at least 1.4 of the 12.6 million people still living in the country. USAID estimates that the country produces... Read more »
October 18
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South Africa: Quo Vadis? Fracking, Gas and Its Future in the Southern African Energy Matrix [opinion]
South Africa may contain the world's fifth largest reserves of shale gas. Yet there remain critical questions that have neither been raised nor addressed regarding the exploitation... Read more »
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