Pallo Jordan responds to Ellis on the role of white communists in finalising the Freedom Charter text

Pallo Jordan relates Stephen Ellis’s attack on the white communist role Continue reading

Disasters set to rise in southern African region

http://www.bdlive.co.za/national/2014/01/22/disasters-set-to-rise-in-southern-africa

Carol Paton analyses the centralisation and apparent lack of clear strategy of AMCU

http://www.bdlive.co.za/national/labour/2014/01/22/amcu-leader-mathunjwa-holds-all-the-cards-at-union

Nomboniso Gasa profile interview on PowerFM with Azania Mosaka

https://soundcloud.com/powerfm987/profile-interview-with-1?utm_source=soundcloud&utm_campaign=wtshare&utm_medium=Facebook&utm_content=https%3A%2F%2Fsoundcloud.com%2Fpowerfm987%2Fprofile-interview-with-1

Magistrates attacked for treatment of rape complainants

http://www.timeslive.co.za/thetimes/2014/01/22/like-being-raped-all-over-again

Human rights watch slam SA police as ‘human rights threat’

There was a time during the struggle against apartheid when Human Rights Watch exposed the repression of the apartheid regime. Continue reading

Raymond Suttner, video interview on early Mandela, relationship with Sisulu and Mandela’s masculinities

Raymond Suttner video interview on ethical significance of Mandela’s court appearances

http://www.polity.org.za/article/mandela-on-trial-its-meaning-for-us-today-2014-01-20

The murky background to water shortage and killings in Mothutlung

Mothotlung water shortages shrouded in murk

Securing licence for Goldfields costs shareholders millions in shares to associates of former gangster Gayton McK

Gold Fields: Ex-con McKenzie’s cronies given R330m

Pierre de Vos, Water is life, but the struggle for it is deadly

Important location of the battle for water in Mothutlung that has already cost three lives, allegedly as a result of police violence, in the context of constitutional rights, in the Bill of Rights and in judgments of the Constitutional court

 

http://www.dailymaverick.co.za/opinionista/2014-01-15-water-is-life-but-the-struggle-for-it-is-deadly/#.Utf0ef3H1SV

Bling queen off hook as state messes up case

http://www.timeslive.co.za/thetimes/2014/01/16/bling-queen-off-hook-as-state-messes-up-the-case

Brits Financial mismanagement and water supply failure not new

http://www.bdlive.co.za/national/2014/01/16/brits-tragedy-was-a-long-time-coming

Mothultlung: where death is delivered faster than service

http://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2014-01-16-mothutlung-where-death-is-delivered-faster-than-service/#.UtfOI_3H1SV

3 people killed by police, while water supply is sabotaged and water tank suppliers provide water whose quality is questioned

http://www.timeslive.co.za/thetimes/2014/01/16/dirty-water-scandal

Continued protests over lack of water and police violence and killings in Mothutlung, outside Brits.

Protests continue and police appear to have thrown a man out of a Nyala leading to his sustaining severe head injuries

http://www.iol.co.za/news/crime-courts/cops-are-killing-us-1.1631690#.UtYj2v3H1SU

Carol Paton analyses the meanings and implications of the ANC election manifesto

http://www.bdlive.co.za/national/politics/2014/01/15/good-news-manifesto-bad-news-for-anc

Rebecca Davis and Thapelo Lekgowa, Dying for water in Brits: Protestors’ blood flows again

http://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2014-01-14-dying-for-water-in-brits-protestors-blood-flows-again/#.UtTRDf3H1SU

Police under fire for excessive force

http://www.timeslive.co.za/thetimes/2014/01/14/cops-crowd-control-over-the-top