Black Noise is a new column that features young black writers dedicated to critiquing and undermining racism, sexism and economic exploitation in South Africa and beyond. I can't even imagine the terror Anene must have felt on that construction site. The details of...
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After the World Ended (III): A Qualified Franchise
February 14, 2013 Hurrah for the University of Johannesburg Trots! They have launched the first ultra-left political party since the 1994 elections! Isn't this what the Creator has been calling for all along? Well, yes and no. It hasn't been launched or even...
Palestinians Caught In Syria’s Crossfire Have Fled | by Robert Fisk
Syria's tragedy began 10 years before she was born. Her parents were driven from their home in Haifa – in that part of Palestine that became Israel – and fled to Lebanon in 1948, then to Syria in 1982. "God bless his soul, our Dad called me Syria and another sister he...
Saying goodbye to Jamie 10th March 2012 | by Mercia Andrews
In the last few weeks I have often thought about saying goodbye to Jamie. But as I thought about saying goodbye, I also remembered the Jamie over a long friendship spanning many places, towns, meetings, demonstrations, exciting debates, long conversations and exotic...
Everybody’s Son | by Uri Avnery
The most sensible – I almost wrote “the only sensible” – sentence uttered this week sprang from the lips of a 5-year old boy. After the prisoner swap, one of those smart-aleck TV reporters asked him: “Why did we release 1027 Arabs for one Israeli soldier?” He...

