In the aftermath of Maseru, a massacre that claimed 42 lives (including two children), Maroo’s “blood-stained suit was vivid in telling his near-death story that he neither had a chance or a heart to tell”, noted Lebo, who went to exile with her father in 1978, never to meet again. To mitigate, ANC’s top brass redeployed its operatives to Lusaka.
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The 2024 watershed election and its ramifications are upon us – and boy – there is pain, sorrow, face-saving and delight, depending on which side…
"We must deliver the land through the act of parliament, which is a legal means. But if that does not, succeed, our land was taken through the barrel of a gun. And it must be returned through that barrel if they cannot give us."
“Mister President, our biggest problem here, is water,” an elderly resident of Mandela Village in Hammanskraal told ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa on Sunday. Ramaphosa was…
The massacre graphically revealed that a black majority-constitutional democratic state, like its racist white military-police state predecessor, is an organised system of oppression at the core of which, is an armed apparatus for violent repression, that guard and defend the profits, and private property of the capitalist class.
Celebrated statesman and human rights champion Nelson Mandela was renowned for his principled stand against human rights violations and violators. But recent developments suggest his…
As the singing went on elsewhere in the hall by jubilant delegates, the KZN branches sat in silence, with some exchanging words with their comrades who sang looking in their direction, swinging their hands in the air to signal change.
IN August 2019 as I was doing research for my book A Desire to Return to The Ruins – I learnt of the passing of…