Chavez: Lessons for SA

Chavez: Lessons for SA

Fidel Castro said of Chavez, “If you want to know what kind of man he was, look who was crying at death and who was celebrating”. The torrential hatred directed at Chavez from the metropoles of global power is hardly surprising. Perhaps more than any...
Centenary of the 1913 Land Act | By Colin Bundy

Centenary of the 1913 Land Act | By Colin Bundy

Why consider the history of a hundred-year old law? Surely the Marikana massacre and farm-workers’ strikes are more urgent? In fact, there are direct links between the Natives’ Land Act of 1913 and current struggles. The Land Act and its consequences still...