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OP-ED: Like the Phoenix, Gaza will Rise from the Fire
The Palestinian spirit is unbreakable. Like the mythical phoenix, defiant and heroic Gaza will rise from the fire. The aerial bombardment of Gaza’s most crowded Jabalia refugee camp piles on one massacre after another. It signifies Israeli barbarism and a fascist...
Chinese New Youth taking on the Imperial Dragon
FROM 1949 UNTIL RECENTLY, generation after generation of “new youth” demanded their rights. But they were all harshly suppressed by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Then, it seemed that most Chinese lost the courage to reassert their rights. Not long ago, the...
The EFF: shallow populists or the revolutionaries South Africa needs?
ON 29TH JULY 2023, TENS of thousands gathered at FNB stadium to celebrate the Economic Freedom Fighters’ 10th anniversary. Struggle songs soared into the air as the 95,000-seater stadium was filled to capacity and soaked in the vibrant red colours embraced by...
AGRARIAN REFORM IN POST-APARTHEID SOUTH AFRICA: THE ROAD NOT TAKEN
IT IS NOW WIDELY ACKNOWLEDGED that post-1994 land reform policies and programmes have been a miserable disappointment. They have failed to deliver tenure security to those whose land rights are at risk. They have failed to provide meaningful restitution to black South...
THE INGONYAMA TRUST – TIME TO FOCUS ON THE BENEFICIARIES
THE INGONYAMA TRUST WAS formed in 1994, just a day before the first democratic elections in South Africa. In terms of the founding legislation, all the land which had previously vested in the former ‘homeland’ of KwaZulu vested in a trust, the Ingonyama Trust, the...
REGULATION, NOT XENOPHOBIA, FOR ZAMA ZAMAS
MINISTER OF MINERAL Resources and Energy, Gwede Mantashe, recently shut down suggestions that “Zama Zamas” should be trained as artisanal miners and incorporated into the formal mining sector, to solve the illegal mining crisis currently engulfing South Africa....
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