MARIKANA – LEST WE FORGET
By Nathi Mntungwa This August marks a decade since the massive slaughter of protesting mineworkers at Marikana.On 16 August 2012 a tactical response unit of the South African police gunned…
REPLACE THE BLAME
GAME WITH ACCOUNTABILITY
By Themba Khumalo Accountability in government has been essentially shrunk to an annoying speculative idea.If you expect any change of attitude from the clumsy apparatchiks, good luck.None of these myopic…
MINING COMPANIES TURN POVERTY INTO A WEAPON OF MASS DESTRUCTION
By Mbangwa Xaba The local mining industry’s silence, following the gang rape of eight innocent young women at one of their mine dumps in Krugersdorp, is unsettling. It is disgusting,…
THE NEW IMPERIALISM’S STRANGE BEDFELLOWS
By P. Anyang’ Nyong’o A new imperialism stalks the Third World. It shares an unquenchable thirst – for our labour, our land, ourminerals, and our water with the old.If colonisation…