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The former colony has become an unexpected source of jobs and investment for Portugal in the global downturn. Angola is Sub-Saharan Africa’s third largest economy, after South Africa and Nigeria (1). It is already one of Africa’s biggest oil producers, with an average...
In the following interview conducted for Journal of Palestine Studies by Jadaliyya Co-Editor Mouin Rabbani, Noam Chomsky reflects on a lifetime of engagement with the Palestine Question. He reflects on his early engagement, and how it developed over the course of his...
Thokozani football club [TFC] is currently comprised of 21 black lesbian-women athletes ranging in ages from 18-41, a coach, and a team administrator. All live in the Umlazi Township, Kwa-Zulu Natal. The team was named after Thokozani Qwabe, a lesbian soccer player...
MP Giyose went to school with Chris Hani in the 1950's. Like Hani, he was from the Cofimvaba district of the Transkei. The two met again in Botswana when Hani was in prison in Lobatsi. They planned to form a youth movement of South African, in Lusaka in 1971. In the...
James Ngculu joined Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) after the 1976 uprising of Soweto. He occupied a variety of posts within MK and spent most of his time abroad in exile, where he became one of Chris Hani's closest companions. After 1994, he acted as the Provincial Secretary...
Interview with Riedewaan Anthony, coach and founding member of Hanover Park Football Club (established in 1980). The Soccer World Cup has come and gone and its promise of a better life for all never materialized. Hanover Park Football Club is located in a township on...
Historian and professional photographer Professor John Edwin Mason (University of Virginia/Charlottesville, USA) visited Cape Town in March 2012 to give a historically revealing pictorial presentation of his experience delving inside the Cape Town Carnival bands....
The economists and big business say it is too radical, filled with Marxist rhetoric, and threatening state intervention and nationalisation. The trade unionists and communists say it is too conservative, promoting black business and labour market reform. Is The Second...
The electoral victory of the Muslim Brotherhood and of the Salafists in Egypt (January 2012) is hardly surprising. The decline brought about by the current globalization of capitalism has produced an extraordinary increase in the so-called "informal" activities that...