The Spear that divided the nation | by Professor Robins

BRETT Murray’s The Spear has generated an extraordinary amount of media and political commentary, social media twittering, marches and protests, including the defacing of the painting itself. The rage expressed by many in response to the depiction of the private parts...

Missed chance as our Rome starts to burn | by Terry Bell

It was not solely disrespect for reserve bank governor Gill Marcus that saw many delegates to the National Union of Metalworkers (Numsa) congress largely ignore her speech last week. Nor was it, as general secretary, Irvin Jim, maintained, because the chattering...
The Amandla Blog

The Amandla Blog

  “Each generation must, out of relative obscurity, discover its mission, fulfill it, or betray it.” Frantz Fanon   The South African crisis: Post-apartheid South Africa can only  be described as in a continuing state of crisis. After nearly twenty years of jobless...