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In this extract from a longer interview conducted by Amandla! Vearey outlines a brief history of policing methodology in Cape Town and a critique based on the intersection between class/capital/space in terms of how crime arises and policing functions in Cape Town A!:...
SO, Julius Malema strides confidently into the midst of what we are told is a 7,000-strong band of armed and angry miners, and calms them down. "Malema takes charge!" exclaimed the front page headline of one of the better Sunday papers. Before him all power — the...
Both major wings of contemporary mainstream economists—'Retro Classicalists' and 'Hybrid Keynesians'—fail in fundamental ways to understand the qualitative characteristics of the economic crisis that continues to impact the U.S. and global economy. Neither wing has...
This week the world witnessed a heated debate around Brett Murray’s painting exposing SA president Jacob Zuma’s genitals. Those in defense of Murray argued that this was purely an artistic act, while those in favour of Zuma argued that it was merely the work of a...
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...