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Vashna Jagarnath, Easter:a moveable feast (The Con)

http://www.theconmag.co.za/2014/04/17/easter-a-moveable-feast/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheCon+%28The+Con%29

UJ research shows sharp increase in service delivery protests

Research shows sharp increase in service delivery protests

IEC worried about effect of protests on safety of its staff during elections

Tlakula: Protest violence worries IEC ahead of elections

Nomboniso Gasa: Eloquent silences. Critique of National Development Plan (NDP) from gender and cultural perspective

It’s time to recapture Nelson Mandela

Mukoni Ratshitanga

November 22, 2013|Johannesburg |Twitter: @MukoniR

Replying to the debate on the Presidency’s Budget Vote in June this year, President Jacob Zuma said something which those who are interested in a credible narrative of our past, present and future should say louder than the decibels permitted to a sitting President.

Prompted by the comments of the Democratic Alliance’s parliamentary leader, Lindiwe Mazibuko, Zuma protested the distortion of President Nelson Mandela’s image and politics.

He told Mazibuko that she and her party, should also “support what he (Mandela) stood for and what he went to prison for and what he said over the years” and objected to the projection of Mandela as “the only nice ANC man,” arguing that appraisal “must not focus only on Madiba the first President of a democratic South Africa who implemented ANC policies of reconciliation and transformation.”

Instead of a disconnect, there was and is consistency between…

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Conditions relating to Bekkersdal protests

State left with Bekkersdal municipal mop-up

Elizabeth Thornberry, Even living custom must be developed in accordance with constitution

“Ukuthwala”: Even living custom must be developed to comply with Constitution

Microsoft accused of allowing US intelligence access to client conversations and other data

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/americas/2013/07/2013711231456665347.html

Discussion on Mandela family disputes including Chief Phatekile Holomisa and Nomboniso Gasa

Cape Town Metro police rough up blind busker

http://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2013-07-11-while-his-guitar-gently-weeps/#.Ud5ulBbH0y5

Nina Simone, Don’t let me be misunderstood, 1964

Nina Simone: I grew up in the South and Midwest during the civil rights years and their aftermath. It challenged everything about my world and changed my perception of life. Not a single day passes where the lessons learned are not effecting my perceptions, my outlook, or my aspirations. What is right now comes from their paths, what is wrong is from where any of us have lost the way. It’s on each of us to make it better for each other. Selflessness brings us into the better angels of our nature. This is my psalm of love to my heroes, the bravest of the brave.

Raymond Suttner, Mandela:strong, tough and tender

Mandela as boxerMadibaandchild

There is a myth that to be strong and manly one cannot also be tender and gentle. Mandela, in a range of ways dispels any such myth. Thereby his life is a challenge to tough and violent masculinities, that are all too prevalent in South Africa today. For Mandela there were times where he found it necessary to fight, both as a boxer and in MK, times where he had to show his strength as in prison. But this photograph with a baby is only one of a range of manifestations of his tenderness.

Nic Dawes, Mandela:the long goodbye

Nic Dawes, Mandela:the long goodbye