News/Politics

In a recent BBC interview, the famed author and polemicist Christopher Hitchens stated that despite his past disillusionment with some within the British left, he still closely identified with left-wing humanist values. In particular a belief or advocacy of the Marxian “dialectic” and the universal notions of freedom and autonomy upon which it is predicated. […]

It is our differing deaths in a developing country and a mature economy that paint the starkest picture of how life in different nations compares.

It really takes a lot of chutzpah to be part of the politically connected few with privileges. The audacity that we see in the conduct, lack of accountability, total disregard for the law and lack of realisation that the culture and odious behaviour they exhibit is breeding a sub-culture that is eating away at the […]

People who complain about the lack of available news about Africa usually don’t try very hard to find it. Sure, if you use South African daily newspapers or South African radio and television as your sources, you’re likely to be disappointed. One of the best sources of news from and about Africa, a source updated […]

US President Barack Obama delivered his most important State of the Nation address this week. The man who seemed to respond to so many dreams is, as president, as emotionally stiff as the way he carries his body. And to be in the US is to realise that one is in a nation that has […]

It seems the current generation of black youth will be the first to turn its back on the liberation movement and the little gains of its struggle. This is likely to happen anytime between the forthcoming local government elections in 2011 and 2020. There is reason to believe that we will see an increasing number […]

The explosive allegations being made by News24 and City Press regarding a WikiLeaks cable which claims that spy boss Moe Shaik and President Jacob Zuma threatened to expose the “political skeletons” of Zuma’s enemies and alleges that Shaik was being cultivated by the Americans is all the proof South Africans will ever need to know […]

By Glenda Daniels This is my first blog. I will write about confessions of a non-blogger, non-tweeter, non-Facebooker, another time. For now, an exciting, nerve-wracking, tense, but maybe even adventurous year awaits us. There are confusing issues to digest regarding the democratic space of the media in 2011 after the traumatic flurry last year: journalists’ […]

If Côte d’Ivoire was not a country on knife-edge; if there were no two presidents vying for power; if innocent lives were not being needlessly lost in that country; if the region of West Africa and the continent of Africa could afford yet another civil war in that neck of the woods; if the people […]