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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...
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...
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 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...
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....
AT THE CONFLUENCE OF THE Liesbeek and the Black Rivers in Cape Town, Amazon (the tech and retail coloniser, not the river) is building its South African headquarters. The R4.6 billion mega-development is on a site so significant it is not an exaggeration to call it...
Under apartheid WHITE FARMERS WERE ONE OF the mainstays of the apartheid ruling bloc. They received substantial state support and protection over many decades. Farmers were organised into cooperatives with monopoly control over specific commodities. They supplied to...
The origins and escalation of the Tigray conflict IT WILL BE TWO YEARS EXACTLY IN November this year since the primordial outbreak of the Ethiopian war in the Tigray region. This war pitted the paramilitary group, Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), a former...
PUBLIC TRANSPORT IS ESSENTIAL to ensure people’s mobility so that they can travel for leisure and for work purposes. Apartheid spatial design put poor black people furthest out of town, away from the industrial areas. And this is still the reality today. Hence the...