73. COSATU and the revival of workerism
WHEN workers downed tools at Coronation Brick at the start of the Durban strikes of 1973 they marched to a nearby stadium led by a man with a red flag. This wasn’t a symbol of socialist solidarity; […]
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The tale of a transforming university: KwaZulu-Natal’s Jabulani University in crisis
IT is something of a mystery why South Africa has produced so few satirical writers: there is raw material everywhere. One of the best satirists of the apartheid years was Christopher Hope whose first book, […]
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Fear and intimidation: censorship and South African post-liberation culture
TWEETS are clearly a short route to trouble. A couple of years ago Tim Noakes, the highly respected sports scientist and dietician, expressed an opinion via Twitter to a mother that a high-fat and vegetable, […]