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Pithouse: The Pogroms in South Africa: a crisis in citizenship
Znet Article, July, 08 2008
Richard Pithouse
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The industrial and mining towns on the Eastern outskirts of Johannesburg are unlovely places. They're set on flat windswept plains amidst the dumps of sterile sand left over from old mines. In winter the wind bites, the sky is a very pale blue and...
Bond: Can reparations for apartheid profits be won in US courts?
Commentary, July, 06 2008
Patrick Bond
Bond's ZSpace page
A telling remark about US imperialism's double standards was uttered by Clinton-era deputy treasury secretary Stuart Eizenstat, who a decade ago was the driver of reparations claims against pro-Nazi corporations, assisting plaintiffs to gain $8 bi...
Ali: The Re-Liberation of Zimbabwe
Znet Article, June, 30 2008
Mahir Ali
Ali's ZSpace page
To his brothers-in-arms, he was simply Comrade Bob. Lord Soames, who presided over the change as London’s representative, called him a “splendid chap”. Smith, who had kept Mugabe in prison for 10 years, abhorred the idea of majority rule but recog...
Gopal: Mugabe, Britain and the abuses of anti-colonialism
Znet Article, June, 28 2008
Priyamvada Gopal
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We should recognise that Zimbabwe was brutalised by colonisation. But Mugabe liberated his country only to install another tyranny...
Majavu: A historical background to the Jean-Pierre Bemba arrest (Part 1)
Commentary, June, 27 2008
Mandisi Majavu
Majavu's ZSpace page
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...
Majavu: Building African Cadres of Excellence: A study of the neo-colonial coordinator class
Commentary, June, 16 2008
Mandisi Majavu
Majavu's ZSpace page
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...
Zirin: Can Soccer Stop the Violence?
Znet Article, June, 10 2008
Dave Zirin
Zirin's ZSpace page
The Boston Celtics have adopted the South African word ubuntu as a team slogan this season. It means unity, interconnectedness and literally, "we are who we are through others." There is a terrible irony that ubuntu is currently being embraced in ...
Nevins: Apartheid's Global Face: From South Africa to the United States
Commentary, June, 10 2008
Joseph Nevins
Nevins's ZSpace page
Fourteen years ago in May, Nelson Mandela assumed the presidency of a democratic South Africa, marking the formal end of the transition from Apartheid. But the shocking reports and images of the recent attacks against immigrants in many of South A...
Bello: Destroying African Agriculture
Znet Article, June, 07 2008
Walden Bello
Bello's ZSpace page
Biofuel production is certainly one of the culprits in the current global food crisis. But while the diversion of corn from food to biofuel feedstock has been a factor in food prices shooting up, the more primordial problem has been the conversion...
Grima: Decolonization and Memory in Algeria
Znet Article, June, 02 2008
Adrian Grima
Grima's ZSpace page
Adrian Grima tries to come to terms with the power and inability of language to deal with and shape personal and collective memory.
Bond: Xenophobia tears apart SA's working class
Commentary, May, 27 2008
Patrick Bond
Bond's ZSpace page
The low-income black township here in Durban which suffered more than any other during apartheid, Cato Manor, was the scene of a test performed on a Mozambican last Wednesday morning.
Jones: "Me, I'm a Camera"
Znet Article, May, 13 2008
Ann Jones
Jones's ZSpace page
The last time I was back in the U.S.A., everyone was talking about "change." Change seemed to mean electing Barack Obama president and thereby bringing all Americans together in blissful agreement. But real change isn't like that. Didn't the guy w...
Bond: Johannesburg Water Denialism Attracts Street and Court Protests
Commentary, April, 27 2008
Patrick Bond
Bond's ZSpace page
South African neoliberal state brutality was on display last week in the famous Soweto suburb of Kliptown - where the African National Congress (ANC) "Freedom Charter" was signed 53 years ago - as the municipal-owned but commercially-oriented Joh...
Faruqi: Egypt's corrupt bread policies leave a bitter taste
Znet Article, April, 26 2008
Daanish Faruqi
Faruqi's ZSpace page
In a country with a growing economy and record-breaking foreign investment, the idea of a food crisis seems almost obsolete. Yet, on April 6, Egyptians from all walks of life united in a general strike, in solidarity with disgruntled factory work...
Ngugi: Troubled African Democracies
Znet Article, April, 18 2008
Mukoma wa Ngugi
Ngugi's ZSpace page
To travel Kenya to Mali, one has to apply for a visa at the French consulate in Kenya. Conversely, to travel from Senegal to Kenya, the visa has to be issued through the British consulate in Senegal. This is a perfect metaphor of Africa in today...
Majavu: The Coordinator Class in the Colony
Commentary, April, 16 2008
Mandisi Majavu
Majavu's ZSpace page
The Coordinator Class in the Colony
Pilger: The Struggle Against Apartheid Has Begun Again In South Africa / Honouring the 'Unbreakable Promise'
Commentary, April, 12 2008
John Pilger
Pilger's ZSpace page
Almost fourteen years after South Africa's first democratic elections and the fall of racial apartheid, John Pilger describes, in an address at Rhodes University, the dream and reality of the new South Africa and the responsibility of its new elite.
Nienaber: Gorilla Industry Exposed in Central Africa
Znet Article, March, 21 2008
Georgianne Nienaber
Nienaber's ZSpace page
International Press Scratches the Surface on "Inside Job" Behind Gorilla Slaughter While Big Stories of Depopulation, Corporate Plunder and War Remain Hidden in the Mists of Propaganda...
Mouradian: Complicity with Evil: An Interview with Adam LeBor
Znet Article, March, 14 2008
Khatchig Mouradian
Mouradian's ZSpace page
Adam LeBor is an author and journalist based in Budapest, Hungary. He writes for The Times (of London), the Economist, the Jewish Chronicle and the New York Times. He is the author of six non-fiction books, including Milosevic: A Biography, City o...
Bond: Zimbabwe's Political Roller-Coaster Hits Another Deep Dip
Commentary, March, 12 2008
Patrick Bond
Bond's ZSpace page
The March 29 election in Zimbabwe is very likely to result in Robert Mugabe winning, by hook or by crook, a slim 50% majority, so as to avoid a run-off. In the last presidential election, in 2002, his main opponent Morgan Tsvangirai - leader of t...
