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Ramallah–In recent years, western discourse surrounding the Palestinian cause has employed a few new — and superficial — adjectives to describe Palestinian resistance: Palestinian “nonviolent” resistance, Palestinian “peaceful” resistance, Palestinian “popular”...
Editors' Forum says party's call tantamount to intimidation and abuse of power Sanef alarmed at call by the ANC to boycott City Press Newspaper The South African National Editors' Forum notes that the South Gauteng High Court has decided to adjourn the hearing of an...
ANC Today article says cheap offensive smut peddled as art doesn't add anything to advance civic liberties ENOUGH AND NO MORE! The artist, the gallery and the City Press editor "... propaganda in some form or other lurks in every book, that every work of art has a...
Jeremy Gordin's nine points about the ANC, The Spear and City Press 1. Little Story When I was 14 or 15 and had just discovered thoughtful writers such as, for example, George Orwell, and compassionate ones such as Alan Paton, I mentioned to my father that I was being...
In his book Art and The End of Apartheid, John Peffer writes about the Medu Art Ensemble: “For them a true culture of the people would be one that was not exclusive to the elite of the world of art galleries, but was seen in the streets, on T-shirts and posters (…).”...
Who exactly, I have wondered as temperatures have risen over the past 10 days over Brett Murray's Zuma Spear painting, is the adult and who is the child in this situation? What started as a battle between the ANC, on one side, and the Goodman Gallery and City Press...
Very near the Dulles International Airport west of Washington last weekend, I found myself a couple of dozen meters away from a formidable gathering of 150 powerbrokers – the Bilderberg Group (named after a Dutch hotel) – whose capacity to move money and influence...
The Occupy movement that began in New York in September 2011 and has spread with remarkable speed across the country represents a massive shift in the politics of the United States.1 A year ago the seemingly inexorable rise of the Tea Party saw the startling...
Jackson Mthembu says party wants picture removed from gallery and news websites The African National Congress is extremely disturbed and outraged by the distasteful and indecent manner in which Brett Murray and the Goodman Gallery in Johannesburg is displaying the...