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Bond: South African Public Sector Strike Highlights Society’s Contradictions
Commentary, August, 23 2010
Patrick Bond
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The two major civil service unions on strike against the South African government vow to intensify pressure in coming days, in a struggle pitting a million members of the middle and lower ranks of society against a confident government leadership ...
Bond: Is Africa Still Being Looted? A Debate Dodging World Bank Schizophrenia
Commentary, August, 16 2010
Patrick Bond
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The continent’s own elites, together with the West and now China are still making Africans progressively poorer, thanks to the extraction of raw materials. Reinvestment is negligible and the prices, royalties and taxes paid are inadequate to compe...
Podur: The Rwandan Election
Znet Article, August, 11 2010
Justin Podur
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Paul Kagame is headed for a landslide victory at the Rwandan polls. Exit polls indicate 93% of the electorate voted for him. If some Western media commentators could vote in Rwandan elections, the number would likely be even higher.
Bond: South Africa loses its ‘War on Poverty’
Commentary, August, 07 2010
Patrick Bond
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Shortly before Pretoria’s presidential power change from Thabo Mbeki to Jacob Zuma two years ago, the South African state announced its War on Poverty (WoP). What news from the front, in the immediate wake of World Cup host duties that showed obse...
Bond: Six Red Cards For Fifa
Commentary, June, 12 2010
Patrick Bond
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The World Cup begins this weekend here in South Africa, with the home team playing Mexico on Friday before 95,000 fans at Johannesburg’s Soccer City.
Cohn: Rwandan Arrest of U.S. Lawyer Motivated by Politics
Commentary, May, 30 2010
Marjorie Cohn
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Professor Peter Erlinder, noted criminal defense lawyer and past president of the National Lawyers Guild, was arrested Friday morning in Rwanda for “genocide ideology.”
Fake: Allergic to Dissent: Khartoum and Washington
Znet Article, May, 21 2010
Steven Fake
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After five days of voting, the withdrawal en masse of virtually all the opposition presidential candidates and countless accusations of ballot tampering, voter intimidation, and worse, Sudan’s elections drama has drawn to an unsurprising conclusion.
Bond: South Africa’s World Cup fest not worth the coming hangover
Commentary, May, 15 2010
Patrick Bond
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On June 11, South Africans start partying like no time since liberation in April 1994, and of course it is a huge honor for our young democracy to host the most important sporting spectacle short of the Olympics. All the ordinary people who have w...
Shah: TED Lecturer Exploits African Women & Children
Commentary, March, 16 2010
Sonia Shah
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Doesn’t Nathan Myhrvold get enough attention? The guy is the former chief technology officer of Microsoft, a multimillionaire, a gourmet chef, a prize-winning photographer and keeper of multiple higher degrees from prestigious institutions. As the...
Bond: Class apartheid in South African society, at our university and in climate politics
Commentary, February, 15 2010
Patrick Bond
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Before we get to some hot South African political economy and political ecology, first consider the psycho-socio-sexual-sporting context.
Schechter: It Was 20 Years Ago Today
Commentary, February, 12 2010
Danny Schechter
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It was 20 years ago Thursday February 11th when Nelson Mandela's Liberation Band began to play.
Porter: Algeria: Soccer, Scandals and the President
Znet Article, January, 29 2010
David Porter
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Strange as it seems, Algerian president Abdelaziz Bouteflika and most of his high-level entourage these days must focus attention (and hopes) on the Algerian national soccer team. The “Greens†of Algeria last week defeated the heavily-favored ...
Bond: What we learned from Dennis Brutus' troubadour politics
Commentary, January, 06 2010
Patrick Bond
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Dennis Brutus died at age 85 on December 26, battling cancer, climate change and capitalism.
Rothschild: On Seeing “Invictus†the Weekend Dennis Brutus Died
Znet Article, December, 28 2009
Matthew Rothschild
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I saw the Nelson Mandela movie “Invictus†this weekend, the same weekend that the great South African poet Dennis Brutus died.
Bond: Dennis Vincent Brutus, 1924-2009
Znet Article, December, 26 2009
Patrick Bond
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World-renowned political organizer and one of Africa's most celebrated poets, Dennis Brutus, died early on December 26 in Cape Town, in his sleep, aged 85.
Schechter: Congo Communique: Obama Denounces Rape But Washington Has Yet To Do Much About It, As War Bleeds Central Africa
Commentary, December, 18 2009
Danny Schechter
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After a week in Kinshasa talking about war in Congo, it was time to see it, or at least visit its epicenter in the East. This is where rape is used as a weapon of war, where rebel groups challenge government forces militarily and occupy territory....
Majavu: A review of Mamdani's "Saviours and Survivors: Darfur, politics, and the War on Terror"
Commentary, December, 14 2009
Mandisi Majavu
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In 2002, Mamdani wrote an essay entitled 'Making sense of political violence in Africa', in which he argued that to distinguish between cultural and political identities is to differentiate between self-identification and state-identification. He ...
Schechter: Congo Communique: Patrice, The Martyr, Ali The "Killer" And Tales From Central Africa
Commentary, December, 10 2009
Danny Schechter
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I came to the Congo in search of its future and instead found myself marching down memory lane. On Thursday we went to the Museum of Beaux Arts, really a school for teaching sculpture, a subject close to me because my late dad sculpted in stone an...
Miller: The Vile Scramble For Loot
Znet Article, November, 18 2009
Robert Miller
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A report on how British corporations are profiting from, and fuelling, the war in the Congo.
Mukherjee: The hunger boom
Znet Article, October, 25 2009
Ananya Mukherjee
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One billion people, 1.02 billion to be precise, are hungry.
