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Commentary Majavu: Congo: Fighting over Goma's Natural Resources

Commentary, November, 08 2008 Mandisi Majavu
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Perhaps it is because of the civil war, reported to have caused the deaths of more than 3 million people in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) between 1998 and 2003, that something has changed in global politics. Maybe this is why the French g...

Commentary Majavu: Decolonising the Mind

Commentary, August, 18 2008 Mandisi Majavu
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In his book 'Decolonising the Mind', Ngugi wa Thiong'o (2006) gives the false impression that decolonising one's mind is simply a matter of proudly speaking and writing in indigenous African languages. Given Africa's history of colonisation, it is...

Commentary Majavu: A historical background to the Jean-Pierre Bemba Arrest (Part 3)

Commentary, July, 09 2008 Mandisi Majavu
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Vilwar (2003) argues that the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is possibly the most mineral rich place on earth. The DRC holds millions of tons of diamonds, copper, cobalt, zinc, manganese, and uranium. It is reported that the uranium used to m...

Commentary Majavu: A historical background to the Jean-Pierre Bemba arrest (Part 2)

Commentary, July, 01 2008 Mandisi Majavu
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In 1997, Mobutu Sese Seko, who had been the president of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) for 32 years, was toppled by Laurent Kabila, the leader of the Allied Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Congo (AFDL). The AFDL was supported by ...

Commentary Majavu: A historical background to the Jean-Pierre Bemba arrest (Part 1)

Commentary, June, 27 2008 Mandisi Majavu
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On May, 25, 2008, the New York Times reported that Jean-Pierre Bemba, the rebel leader of the Movement for Liberation of Congo (MLC) and the former vice president of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), was arrested near Brussels at the request...

Commentary Majavu: Building African Cadres of Excellence: A study of the neo-colonial coordinator class

Commentary, June, 16 2008 Mandisi Majavu
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Times have changed. The colonial project in Africa is no longer carried out with a gun and a boot and a baton. Structural adjustment programmes inform the neo-colonial agenda; and that agenda requires that a new coordinator class among the native...

Blog Post Majavu: Saturday special: ‘NGO night’

Blog Post, June, 09 2008 Mandisi Majavu
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Often, NGOs in Africa are seen as agents of democratic change, ‘significant actors in the democratisation process through helping to create plural sources of power within civil society.’

Blog Post Majavu: Xenophobic violence in context

Blog Post, May, 26 2008 Mandisi Majavu
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The xenophobic violence which erupted in Johannesburg two weeks ago has so far claimed the lives of 42 people and has resulted in more than 30 000 foreigners becoming displaced.

Commentary Majavu: The Coordinator Class in the Colony

Commentary, April, 16 2008 Mandisi Majavu
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The Coordinator Class in the Colony

Commentary Majavu: The Mis-education of the Coordinator Class

Commentary, March, 14 2008 Mandisi Majavu
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Chomsky (2004) points out that Harvard trains the people that rule the world, while MIT trains those who make it work. I cannot think of a more succinct way of describing the goals of an educational process that creates and maintains the coordinat...

Blog Post Majavu: White supremacy as a way of life

Blog Post, March, 10 2008 Mandisi Majavu
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According to the Human Sciences and Research Council study, opportunities for whites are abundant, and it is easier for whites to get credit, start a business, find a job and make more money in their lifetime than it is for the average black perso...

Commentary Majavu: Xenophobia and Society

Commentary, December, 17 2007 Mandisi Majavu
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Various research studies conclude that South Africans, black and white, are xenophobic. In 1997, the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) identified xenophobia "as a major source of concern to human rights and democracy in the country." T...

Commentary Majavu: Life After Colonialism

Commentary, September, 19 2007 Mandisi Majavu
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A shortened version of this paper was presented at the 30th Anniversary Commemorative International Biko Conference, which was held in Cape Town from 10 - 12 September 2007.

Znet Article Majavu: Remembering The Future Of Radical Activism

Znet Article, August, 24 2007 Mandisi Majavu
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Remembering The Future Of Radical Activism

Znet Article Majavu: Post Colonial Blacks

Znet Article, June, 12 2006 Mandisi Majavu
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This is the edited version of the paper presented at the “Native Club: Where are the Natives? The Black Intelligentsia Today.” There is a tendency by those who write books and essays for leading journals to downplay the seriousne...

Znet Article Majavu: A Biography of Nadine Gordimer

Znet Article, January, 15 2006 Mandisi Majavu
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No Cold Kitchen' is a biography of Nadine Gordimer, published by STE Publishers, and is written byRonald S. Roberts. Historically, Gordimer played a vital role in the struggle against the apartheid. In 1985, Gordimer declared that: "I am a partisa...

Commentary Majavu: The Rise of the Shack Dwellers Movement

Commentary, December, 06 2005 Mandisi Majavu
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In an article entitled "The Third Force", S'bu Zikode - the elected chairman of the abahlali base mjondolo (shack dwellers) movement, wrote that the shack dwellers movement has "given hope to thousand of people in Durban". In Durban, it is estimat...

Znet Article Majavu: South African Business In Zimbabwe

Znet Article, August, 21 2005 Mandisi Majavu
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Questions are being raised about those who are crying crocodile tears for the victims of Robert Mugabe's recent "Operation Murambatsvina-Restore Order" (or ‘Drive Out Trash’ in the indigenous Shona language), while making big profi...

Commentary Majavu: Congo; A Story of “Unimportant People”

Commentary, April, 27 2005 Mandisi Majavu
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In his book, “King Leopold’s Ghost”, Adam Hochschild writes: “At the time of the Congo controversy a hundred years ago, the idea of full human rights, political, social, and economic, was a profound threat to the es...

Znet Article Majavu: Writing Back To The Empire

Znet Article, January, 20 2005 Mandisi Majavu
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It is interesting how the latest book on the Rwandan genocide by Linda Melvern has been received, or, rather, how it has been ignored by the South African media. Even the radical posturing newspapers have so far ignored the book. The neglect of th...

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