Nomboniso Gasa on legacy of 1913 Land Act

http://www.dispatch.co.za/insight-complex-legacy-of-1913-land-act-held-captive/

Nomboniso Gasa: Millions will lose their citizenship

Nomboniso Gasa: Millions will lose their citizenship

Nomboniso Gasa tribute to Chris Hani on 20th anniversary of his death

http://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/how-hani-brought-politics-to-villagers-1.1499901#.Ua7jQpWGj8s

Bradley Manning case considered from theological viewpoint, seeing Manning as fulfilling a prophetic role

This is a powerful article, including

‘In suggesting we all need to examine our consciences, I take my cue from a more recent prophet in the tradition of Isaiah, Rabbi Abraham Heschel, who insisted that wherever injustice takes place, “few are guilty, but all are responsible.” Rabbi Heschel drove home the point, adding that, “indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself.”
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The objective of the Obama administration is transparent. It has little to do with the law, but rather is designed to make an object lesson of Manning. The administration wants to deter other truth-tellers who might also be tempted to reveal information that is labeled secret to hide oppression and abuse-including in this case, US war crimes

http://portside.org/2013-06-03/moral-imperative-bradley-manning

Taksim square protests, more reports of repression, while silence reigns in Turkish media

http://www.dailymaverick.co.za/opinionista/2013-06-04-taksim-square-a-protest-that-became-part-of-me/#.Ua3mHZWGj8t

NUM and AMCU battle in Rustenburg

http://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2013-06-04-num-amcu-marikana-tis-the-season-to-be-bloody/#.Ua3k35WGj8t

The article by Greg Marinovich describes the continued violence in the Rustenburg platinum belt, particularly in Marikana. What is significant also is how the ANC and government do not distinguish their partisan political interests in relating to AMCU, who are in ‘ANC territory’ and attempting to reverse the gains of the revolution, as the Minister-of Mines says more or less. This is not only a failure to distinguish what belongs to whom -party and state, but it may well exacerbate an already volatile situation. That a peacekeeping force is being sent in, is claimed to be requested by all sides, but if government has such a partisan attitude can one be sure that the peacekeepers will simply keep the peace?

Oscar Pistorius and the horror of a broken white body, by Pierre de vos

http://www.dailymaverick.co.za/opinionista/2013-06-04-pistorius-the-horror-of-a-broken-white-body/#.Ua3l1pWGj8t

Miles Davis, Tribute to Jack Johnson

In the sleeve notes for this album, Miles Davis says, when Jackson became the first black world heavyweight boxing champion, in 1908, ‘whitey didn’t like it.’ Continue reading →