Bruce Springsteen in Cape Town singing Free Nelson Mandela
Amandla Marikana! by All Clear band (lyrics by Allan Kolski Horwitz)
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Greg Nicolson, on Durban Deep police killing
State action used to threaten those who may not give Zuma warm reception in Eastern Cape
Note how police are present and those who are not inlined to give Number one a warm reception are threatened not only with organisational discipline but the arm of the state
http://www.citypress.co.za/politics/boo-face-arrest-eastern-cape-anc-warns-members/
Kwanele Sosibo, On dynamics within the EFF
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
Carol Paton analyses the centralisation and apparent lack of clear strategy of AMCU
Nomboniso Gasa profile interview on PowerFM with Azania Mosaka
Magistrates attacked for treatment of rape complainants
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
Nina Simone, Strange Fruit
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
The murky background to water shortage and killings in Mothutlung
Securing licence for Goldfields costs shareholders millions in shares to associates of former gangster Gayton McK
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
Raymond Suttner 