Category Archives: human rights

Alex Eliseev, Bonfires of discontent in horrifying numbers

Alex Eliseev discusses the extent of violent protests Continue reading →

Raymond Suttner, Are developments in NUMSA moving towards an emancipatory project?

http://www.polity.org.za/article/are-developments-in-numsa-moving-towards-an-emancipatory-project-2014-02-05

Nomboniso Gasa, To succeed Ramphele cannot afford to oversimplify race

http://www.iol.co.za/sundayindependent/to-succeed-ramphele-cannot-afford-to-oversimplify-race-1.1640499#.Uu32of3H1SU

Raymond Suttner interview on current situation with Creamer Media’s Polity

Guardian report of Pete Seeger’s death and his singing This Land is Your Land (Woody Guthrie)

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/jan/28/pete-seeger-dies-aged-94

General council of the bar slams government for silence over homophobic steps on the continent

Govt criticised for silence on anti-gay legislation

Amandla Marikana! by All Clear band (lyrics by Allan Kolski Horwitz)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8arEQfGd4w&feature=youtu.be

Lyrics Continue reading →

Greg Nicolson, on Durban Deep police killing

http://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2014-01-24-durban-deep-in-photos-another-day-another-police-victim/#.UuIQbv2asy5

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 →

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 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

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

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