Raymond Suttner, Response to comments on my article in the Mail and Guardian of 27 September 2013

I recently published an article analysing the degeneration of the ANC led tripartite alliance. Continue reading

Raymond Suttner on disintegration of the ANC/SACP/COSATU alliance

The tripartite alliance has sold its soul

Greg Nicolson, Marikana police lied and faked Farlam commission evidence

http://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2013-09-20-marikana-police-lied-faked-farlam-commission-evidence/#.UjvuvRaGj8t

John Capel: State fails Marikana workers by not paying lawyers

The focus of some on the fees of Dali Mpofu (much lower than the evidence leaders and others) detracts from the broader duty of the state Continue reading

Eduardo Galeano, The right to dream

http://thinkloud65.wordpress.com/2011/03/31/the-right-to-dream-–-a-utopia-according-to-eduardo-galeano/

Angela Davis, Terrorism is part of our history, part of speech to commemorate the 1962 Birimingham bombings of four schoolgirls

Greg Marincovich and Greg Nicolson, Marikana Commission:lies, videotapes and the police’s crumbling wall of deceit

http://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2013-09-16-marikana-commission-lies-videotapes-and-the-polices-crumbling-wall-of-deceit/#.UjcIiRaGj8t

Harry Targ, Spirit of Socialism lives on in Chile and poem by Mitchell Cohen

http://portside.org/2013-09-08/spirit-socialism-chile-lives-poem-pinochets-capture

Elizabeth Thornberry, Customary status of ukuthwala debated since 19th century

Customary status of “ukuthwala” debated since 19th century

Elizabeth, Thornberry: Validity of “ukuthwala” depends on definition of custom

Validity of “ukuthwala” depends on definition of custom

Ariel Dorfman, Martin Luther King jr and the two 9/11s

http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175741/tomgram%3A_ariel_dorfman%2C_martin_luther_king_and_the_two_9_11s/

Jeffrey St. Clair, The CIA came at night

One example of rendition, in the wake of 9/11 US lawlessness

The CIA Came at Night

Government refuses to fund legal representation for miners at Marikana commission, but millions spent on representi

http://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2013-08-23-radebe-on-commissions-state-money-only-for-state-employees/#.UhcAPBbH0y5

Raymond Suttner: Government and tripartite alliance ‘no pitch’ at Marikana memorial

From the first days after the Marikana massacre Continue reading

Gcobani Qambela, Why Trevor Noah’s tweets about Caster Semenya matters

I do not know what Caster Semenya’s sexual orientation is. What I do know is that she is constitutionally entitled to decide how she wants to be, in terms of her sexual identity and her choice of sexual practices so long as this does not violate the rights of others.  We are speaking of a young woman who has had traumatic experiences because her sexuality was questioned in the course of her athletic career.  A comedian is a public figure and if that person is to do more than make people laugh, especially if s/he is a satirist there must be some sense of responsibility and respect towards other human beings especially someone who is vulnerable.  And this is especially so if Caster Semenya has chosen a sexual identity that deviates form heteronormativity.  We are living through a period of repeated ‘corrective rapes’.   We are entitled to expect that all public figures should take steps to combat this scourge and even if their job is humour, to defend constitutionalism, and individual identities and choices.

http://www.thoughtleader.co.za/oneyoungworld/2013/08/12/why-trevor-noahs-tweet-about-caster-semenya-matters/

Laura Kapelari, Social media rape culture and how women are fighting back

http://feministssa.com/2013/08/13/social-media-rape-culture-and-how-women-are-fighting-back/

Antony Loewenstein, The daily inhumanity of Guantanamo Bay

http://antonyloewenstein.com/2013/08/11/the-daily-inhumanity-of-guantanamo-bay/

Nomboniso Gasa on patriarchy in history and SA today

Mandisi Majavu, Vavi: Discursive Tension Stifles Rape Discussion

Another take on the alleged rape  or ‘consensual’ sex engaged in by Zwelinzima Vavi in COSATU HQ. While I think the writer brings some insights that have not been in the debate, the power relationship seems somehow to be lost in the various discourses that the writer examines. While ‘discursive tension’ may stifle debate, without detracting from what the contribution reveals, does it open that debate on Vavi’s actions, any further than it has been up till now?

http://sacsis.org.za/site/article/1746