With the death this week of Neville Alexander South Africa has lost one of it's greatest, and possibly least appreciated, sons. Political thinker & activist; teacher & author; academic of renown and genuine revolutionary Neville Alexander inspired generations...
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Neville Alexander 1936-2012 A prophet rather than a politician | by Francis Wilson
With the death this week of Neville Alexander South Africa has lost one of it's greatest, and possibly least appreciated, sons. Political thinker & activist; teacher & author; academic of renown and genuine revolutionary Neville Alexander inspired generations...
Interview with John Edwin Mason | by Carol Martin
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....
Saving resources and the environment: A modest proposal | by Fred Magdoff
There are significant numbers of people in the wealthy countries who believe that the great issues of resource depletion and global environmental pollution are caused primarily by the huge number of people on the globe — currently about 7 billion — and that things...
Forty years of ‘How Europe Underdeveloped Africa’ | by Nigel Westmaas
Walter Rodney’s seminal work remains a compelling and persuasive living history and totem of critical resistance to the exploitation and underdevelopment of the African continent. This year marks the 40th anniversary of the publication of Walter Rodney’s How Europe...
Death of a mensch and anti-racist scientist : Phillip Tobias
Phillip Tobias, who died on 7th June 2012 aged 86, was probably South Africa’s most honoured and decorated scientist. He was world renowned for his path-finding work in palaeoanthropology that combined studies of paleontology and physical anthropology. At a time when...
Black man, you’re still on your own | by Olwethu Sipuka
Olwethu Sipuka says Brett Murray hit the black man in the belly of his struggles "Black man you are on your own" "For the problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color line", (W.E.B du Bois, 1903) The scenes that played themselves off at the Goodman...
Some advice for Jacob Zuma | by Jeremy Gordin
Jeremy Gordin says SA does appear to be in a state of perpetual hysteria these days As icy darkness fell over Johannesburg's northern suburbs last night and impis of men (sorry, I mean people) armed with the latest painting-defacing tools (cans of paint and their...
Nazism, Zionism, and the Arab World | by Annette Herskovits
Countering the myths spread by pro-Israel ideologues The intricate, sprawling architecture of deception that shapes understanding of the Israel-Palestine conflict in America is probably unique in history. For over six decades, the U.S. Congress, successive presidents,...




