I recently published an article analysing the degeneration of the ANC led tripartite alliance. Continue reading
Category Archives: Violence
Raymond Suttner on disintegration of the ANC/SACP/COSATU alliance
Greg Nicolson, Marikana police lied and faked Farlam commission evidence
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
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
Harry Targ, Spirit of Socialism lives on in Chile and poem by Mitchell Cohen
Elizabeth Thornberry, Customary status of ukuthwala debated since 19th century
Elizabeth, Thornberry: Validity of “ukuthwala” depends on definition of custom
Ariel Dorfman, Martin Luther King jr and the two 9/11s
Nina Simone, Why? The king of love is dead (written on the death of Martin Luther King jr)
Jeffrey St. Clair, The CIA came at night
One example of rendition, in the wake of 9/11 US lawlessness
Government refuses to fund legal representation for miners at Marikana commission, but millions spent on representi
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.
Laura Kapelari, Social media rape culture and how women are fighting back
Antony Loewenstein, 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?