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Fletcher jr.: Zimbabwe: Transition to Where?
Znet Article, February, 20 2009
Bill Fletcher jr.
Fletcher jr.'s ZSpace page
The struggle in Zimbabwe has never been a clean one...
Bond: Durban for Palestine via BDS
Commentary, February, 05 2009
Patrick Bond
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The decision on February 3 by South African dockworkers to refuse handling of Israeli imports is of enormous importance for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, and will prod more local Durban citizens - including academics and cu...
Engler: Canada in Africa
Commentary, January, 31 2009
Yves Engler
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In mid December, Robert Fowler, a career Canadian diplomat who is currently the UN Secretary General's Special Envoy to Niger, and his aide Louis Guay, an official at Foreign Affairs, were abducted in Niger. They were kidnapped not long after visi...
Porter: Algeria, Elections and Gaza
Znet Article, January, 19 2009
David Porter
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In Algeria, as elsewhere throughout the Arab and Muslim worlds, Israel’s brutal war on Gaza clarified once again the great distance between ordinary citizens and their respective political regimes. Daily media images of savage attacks and Palest...
Mamdani: Lessons of Zimbabwe
Znet Article, December, 22 2008
Mahmood Mamdani
Mamdani's ZSpace page
It is hard to think of a figure more reviled in the West than Robert Mugabe. Liberal and conservative commentators alike portray him as a brutal dictator, and blame him for Zimbabwe’s descent into hyperinflation and poverty.
Majavu: Africa: Life After Colonialism
Znet Article, December, 02 2008
Mandisi Majavu
Majavu's ZSpace page
The one issue that remains the main problem in post-colonial Africa is the failure of African revolutionary movements to articulate a truly liberatory political and economic vision.
Majavu: Congo: Fighting over Goma's Natural Resources
Commentary, November, 08 2008
Mandisi Majavu
Majavu's ZSpace page
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...
Lendman: Targeting Aristide in Exile
Znet Article, November, 05 2008
Stephen Lendman
Lendman's ZSpace page
Elected Haiti's president in 1990. Its first ever democratically chosen one. By a sweeping two-thirds majority. Took office in February 1991. Deposed by an army-led coup in September with all the earmarks of being made-in-Washington. Returned to o...
Kidane: AfriCOM, Militarization And Resource Control
Znet Article, October, 25 2008
Nunu Kidane
Kidane's ZSpace page
For years, the US never considered Africa as a priority foreign policy agenda. The only context in which Africa came up in Washington was for preferential trade as in AGOA (Africa Growth and Opportunity Act) or in AIDS-funding from PEPFAR (the Pre...
Bond: New African resistance to global finance
Commentary, October, 25 2008
Patrick Bond
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Far-reaching strategic debate is underway about how to respond to the global financial crisis, and indeed how the North's problems can be tied into a broader critique of capitalism.
Ngugi: What is America to me?
Znet Article, October, 21 2008
Mukoma wa Ngugi
Ngugi's ZSpace page
Countee Cullen, a black American poet, once asked: What is Africa to me? With the US elections just days away, and Africans holding their breath, fingers mostly crossed for Obama, I find I have to reverse the question and ask: What is America to ...
Fletcher jr.: The Fall of Thabo Mbeki and the Future of South Africa
Znet Article, October, 11 2008
Bill Fletcher jr.
Fletcher jr.'s ZSpace page
I had almost literally just finished reading William Gumede's acclaimed biography of South African President Thabo Mbeki, when it was announced that President Mbeki was being sacked by the leadership of the African National Congress.
Pilger: South Africa: The Liberation's Betrayal
Commentary, October, 06 2008
John Pilger
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John Pilger describes the 'social and economic catastrophe' that replaced the African National Congress's 'unbreakable' promise' to end the poverty of the majority.
Bond: SA and Zimbabwe politicos join global financiers in self-destruction
Commentary, September, 21 2008
Patrick Bond
Bond's ZSpace page
The past week has been a wild roller-coaster ride in and out of Southern African ruling-party politics, down the troughs of world capitalism, and up the peaks of radical social activism. Glancing around the region and world from those peaks, we ca...
Worthington: Rendered to Egypt for torture, Mohammed Saad Iqbal Madni is released from Guantánamo
Znet Article, September, 05 2008
Andy Worthington
Worthington's ZSpace page
News that three more prisoners have been released from Guantánamo is cause for celebration, as all three men should never have been held in the first place. In a report to follow, I’ll look at the stories of the two Afghans released -- one a simpl...
Bond: Ecological debt and our center's survival
Commentary, August, 22 2008
Patrick Bond
Bond's ZSpace page
"We are the creditors!," insist African social activists victimized by the ongoing Third World debt crisis, but now gathered to fight back.
Rossouw: The Rainbow Nation Dream Was Just An Illusion
Znet Article, August, 21 2008
Johann Rossouw
Rossouw's ZSpace page
Recent violence between the poor and the poorer in South Africa was the by-product of the country's stagnation - it has achieved what it set out to do racially, but not economically or socially. The old colonial model of modernity is still the ...
Le guilledoux: Algerias Legendary Fln Team And Its Legacy
Znet Article, August, 21 2008
Dominique Le guilledoux
Le guilledoux's ZSpace page
Leading Algerian players in the French league met up to form a national team for the 1958 World Cup - a team for the FLN, Algeria's liberation front. It was an amazing political-sporting event, and the Algerian players they went on to coach, trai...
Majavu: Decolonising the Mind
Commentary, August, 18 2008
Mandisi Majavu
Majavu's ZSpace page
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...
Suttner: Need Real Debate On South Africa's Future
Znet Article, August, 13 2008
Raymond Suttner
Suttner's ZSpace page
In the face of the substantial social, economic and political challenges facing this country, ANC members - and indeed the great majority of South Africans - are today being fed a diet of slogans. This has nothing to do with the proud legacy of ci...
