In Gill Hart's excellent new book Rethinking the South Africa crisis, she points to a rather curious phenomenon as part of her engagement with the figure of one Julius Malema and the 'populist' turn he represents. She notes that for a change the far left and liberal...
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FILM REVIEW: The Village under the Forest | review by Martin Jansen
The film tells the story of South African Heidi Grunebaum's journey of discovery about the true nature of Israel, Zionism and the Jewish National Fund (JNF). The journey is activated by Heidi's study of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) during...
The Weapon of Theory- Amilcar Cabral
Address delivered to the first Tricontinental Conference of the Peoples of Asia, Africa and Latin America held in Havana in January, 1966 by Amilcal Cabral If any of us came to Cuba with doubts in our mind about the solidity, strength, maturity and vitality of the...
A tale of two museums | by Andre Marais
Landlocked Timbuktu in Mali and coastal Cape Town are 6,000 kilometres apart from one another but they are both under threat: one museum by a religious fundamentalism, the other by economics. Both museums are preserving important historical and heritage sites. Both...
Fact sheet: How the wealthy are doing in the post financial crisis era
Far from wallowing in squalor, the super-rich have been raking it in since the rest of the world had to radically downscale its life expectations in the aftermath of the Great Recession. In 2011 total global wealth exceeded figures recorded before 2007, although...
Fact sheet: How the wealthy are doing in the post financial crisis era
Far from wallowing in squalor, the super-rich have been raking it in since the rest of the world had to radically downscale its life expectations in the aftermath of the Great Recession. In 2011 total global wealth exceeded figures recorded before 2007, although...
A Namibian tribute to Neville Alexander: Revisiting the National Question | by Shaun Whittaker
It is a remarkable historical coincidence that Neville Alexander was laid to rest on the very same day that some Marikana workers – most of whom were also from the Eastern Cape - were buried. This tragic incident of the miners represents a turning point in the...
Haiti’s forgotten Revolution and C.L.R. James
The great Trindadian intellectual C.L.R. James's The Black Jacobins is a decidedly partisan text, it has no pretensions of grandiose academic objectivity or liberal 'fairness'. It is a great Marxist text, not great in the sense of providing a new insight into the...
The revolution and the emancipation of women – A Reflection on Sankara’s Speech, 25 Years Later | by Amber Murrey
I would like to situate my ideas within the geo-political context of the popular uprisings that continue to take place around the world as people organise against neoliberal policies of advanced capitalism and their resultant gross inequalities in wealth, health and...





