North Americans seem to believe that torture has no history here. It happened in medieval Europe, at the command of dictators in far-off places, or as part of leftist insurgencies. For the United States, torture is anathema to our way of life, violative of our...
In 1956, in an article in the journal Liberation, Nelson Mandela explained aspects of the Freedom Charter: The breaking up and democratisation of these monopolies will open up fresh fields for the development of a prosperous Non-European bourgeois class. For the first...
Many have been outraged and sad for President Jacob Zuma over The Spear saga but in truth he could not have asked for a better week. With just seven months to go to the ANC’s Mangaung conference, Zuma’s battle over The Spear has given him a party that is...
Alexander Cockburn, one of my journalistic and literary heroes passed away yesterday, after a prolonged battle with cancer. Cockburn’s acidic criticism, flourishing prose and general contempt for all that was orthodox, safe and banal, made him one of the...
Internal tensions in the SA Transport and Allied Workers Union (SATAWU) surfaced in June 2012 when Gauteng provincial chairperson Liver Mngomezulu and his deputy Reuben Molefe were suspended from the union. The union alleged they had signed an unauthorised contract...
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