Despite 27 years of democracy and constitutionally guaranteed equity, discriminations continues
Nelson Mandela
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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
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Active citizenship must be revived
Because all we have now are commemorations of Freedom Day and the dreams it once carried
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Young activists: a thin chapter in the history curriculum
Some of the most brutal years of the anti-apartheid struggle, fought by women and children, are given a scant 20 minutes in the classroom
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The ANC’s psycho-political failure
The politics of compromise and concessions preserve, rather than rupture, the master-slave dialectic
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Put in context, Mandela did what he could with what he had
Those who attack his assertions and actions should ask themselves what they have sacrificed for the country they want
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A lesson on equality for the US from post-apartheid South Africa
If the protests in the United States and elsewhere are about systemic racial oppression, then South Africa’s experience is that unless toxic concentrations of political power are addressed, deep structural changes are unlikely to occur
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Madiba’s tears
From promised land to pariah It was many years in the making In colony and forged capital And many lives for the taking Thirty years of progress Thirty years of peace Mountains and molehills And never-ending grief This one, not that one The quota game we play To balance the diversity To realign the pain […]
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In Tambo they trust
This year we have heard from the great and the good about comrade OR Tambo, the late leader of the ANC – who led the ANC for many years, in exile. Some having served alongside Tambo, have sought to embellish their own credentials by passing themselves off as more authentic exemplars of Tamboism. Some having […]
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Has the time for ‘talks about talks’ come in SA?
The student protests of the last year are reminiscent of the 1976 student uprisings. Those protests were the precursor to a political change in South Africa less than a decade later. When young, educated “born free” South Africans express anger and impatience it’s time to pay attention. They have shown they want action. They want […]
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A letter to a mother who raised black girls
Dear Mama I don’t know if you’ve seen the news: young girls at Pretoria Girls High School have been in the news because their school has racist hair rules. Apparently their some of their parents don’t agree with their protest. What has also been in the news is the story about 3000 girls in the […]
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Black anger management
Many ugly and unfair things were done to blacks under apartheid. The miracle that some people do not believe happened in 1994 is that black people, generally, forgave whites for their sins. They chose to let bygones be bygones, release the hurt and trust that the gesture would significantly contribute to nation building and reconciliation. […]