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Dear President Zuma, I found donkey in my burger. Disappointed Dear Disappointed, I can understand why you feel the way you do. After all, I find caviar in my sushi, Johnny Walker Blue in my Coke and gold coins in my Sunday pudding. For me, every day is Christmas....
Tunisia, cradle of the revolts in the Arab world, hosts from today [26 March] and until Saturday the World Social Forum (WSF), the most important international meeting of social movements and organizations. And this is not by chance. The promoters of the WSF chose...
In Europe we are at a new stage of class confrontation. Despite the systemic crisis not only of finance but of the whole of the mode of accumulation and reproduction of 'financial market capitalism,' this system has been able to maintain itself. Its transnational...
Thokozani football club [TFC] is currently comprised of 21 black lesbian-women athletes ranging in ages from 18-41, a coach, and a team administrator. All live in the Umlazi Township, Kwa-Zulu Natal. The team was named after Thokozani Qwabe, a lesbian soccer player...
first published in Mahala This was the third time I attended the Grahamstown National Arts Festival, now as a fourth year student at Rhodes University. The role that the festival plays for the town has become increasingly apparent as my own interests and work have...
Some five years ago, the overwhelming majority of both rural and urban South Africans would have baulked at the idea of polygamy. However, it seems that polygamy has regained some legitimacy and currency. Together with President Zuma, celebrities such as the composer...
Why is President Jacob Zuma and the JSC imposing Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng as our chief justice when he is clearly unsuitable for the position? South Africa’s Constitution requires the Constitutional Court and all others to interpret, protect and enforce the fundamental...
Julius Malema argues against the ANC's campaign to boycott the newspaper ENGAGE AND NOT BAN THE CITY PRESS In my tenure as President of the ANC Youth League, I have been a victim of vilification and dis-reputation by many South African leading newspapers. The...
Alexander Matthews says City Press can be bullied but the internet is beyond its reach In a brave new world, the ANC's bullying tactics will fail There has been much gnashing of teeth at the decision made by the editor of City Press, Ferial Haffajee, to remove a photo...