A look at the fraught history of this island state sheds light on the current political context
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Lessons from Nklandla for Cape Independence
A minority ANC government in the Western Cape and an ideologically compromised court system should think long and hard before it demonstrates that mob rule has replaced the constitutional order
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uBaba’s not ageing out of crime: what is his game?
Jacob Zuma’s relentless attack on the judiciary had a setback when the constitutional court sentenced him to 15 months for contempt. But will this achieve its purpose?
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Part one: A country with no children
The generation of 1976, which shook the word with its grassroots education and mobilisation, has grown up. This generation’s mass movements can learn from its elders
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Part two: A country with no children
Young people learned about grassroots organising and self-education from each other in the 1980s in South Africa
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Kaunda, a pacifist whose ubuntu embraced violence
His book, Kaunda on Violence, presents his philosophy of pacifism, which is characterised by African humanism
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Why ANC leaders ‘love’ the ANC
The truth is that ANC leaders don’t “love” the ANC itself but do love what their membership of the party did to their lives after 1994 as a result of the jobs in the government or private sector they occupied and benefited so much from
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From #RhodesMustFall to #LeopoldMustFall
Belgian protests a year ago have many parallels with South Africa’s decolonisation movement
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Psychologists talk: Is the United Nations capable of resolving the Israel-Palestine issue (or indeed any modern crisis)?
Suntosh Pillay speaks to fellow psychologist Anton Botha, who is also a former UN staff member, about Israel and Palestine and whether or not the United Nations is abdicating its duties to maintain peace
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An automated ballistics identification system may be a way to rob the taxpayer
The recommendation to implement the ABIS system highlights a lack of technical expertise in the police service
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Photo essay: South Africa stands with Palestine
Student photographers capture the inside of a South African protest for the freedom of Palestine, outside the Israeli embassy in Pretoria
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Today’s ANC is a criminal enterprise masquerading as moral and political “leaders of society”
The criminal prosecution and lawful dissolution of the ANC are not only morally desirable but legally justifiable too