The Films and Publications Board (FPB) announced this morning that a panel of its classifiers has classified The Spear (as well as “images and/or replicas” of it), in terms of the Film and Publications Act and gave it a rating of 16N. The Spear, for those readers who...
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The Spear: City Press’ reply to Zuma | by Fikile-Ntsikelelo Moya
Text of replying affidavit by executive editor Fikile-Ntsikelelo Moya IN THE SOUTH GAUTENG HIGH COURT, JOHANNESBURG (REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA) CASE NO: 17978/2012 In the matter between: JACOB GEDLEYIHLEKISA ZUMA - First Applicant AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS - Second...
‘Closing the doors of learning’ (to the Israeli state) opens the doors of freedom | by Patrick Bond and Muhammed Desai
One of South Africa’s largest tertiary institutions, the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) in Durban, is a site of multiple controversy but a near-disaster on Monday deserves more reflection because it points us in a positive direction: away from allying with the...
May Day: From history to saving the future | by Jeff Rudin
We are about to celebrate May Day. There are important connections between this May 1st holiday and the proposed amendments to key labour legislation, unemployment and climate change. Developing these connections is best begun by noting Labour’s very public outrage...
Most Positive Possible Outcome Of The Current Financial Crisis In Europe | by Charles Hugh Smith
I was recently challenged by a contributor to write something positive, and so I decided to write about the single most positive outcome of the current financial crisis in Europe: the complete collapse of the corrupt, predatory, pathological global banking sector and...
Recovering from AIDS: Re-balancing social health priorities and practice | by Brian K. Murphy
‘Schmalhausen’s Law is a general principle that organisms in unusual or extreme conditions, at the boundary of their tolerance for any one aspect of their life conditions, are extremely sensitive to stressors in all aspects of their life conditions … A whole-system...
Recovering from AIDS: Re-balancing social health priorities and practice | by Brian K. Murphy
‘Schmalhausen’s Law is a general principle that organisms in unusual or extreme conditions, at the boundary of their tolerance for any one aspect of their life conditions, are extremely sensitive to stressors in all aspects of their life conditions … A whole-system...
Neoliberalism, Education and the Politics of Capital: Searching Possibilities of Resistance | by Ravi Kumar
That the instruments of imparting education extend beyond the classical notions of classroom learning is a fact few can disagree with today. It is, however, not enough to realise that the process of educating a human being transcends the limited universe of whatever...


