A Charter for freedom
THURSDAY 26 June marks the seventieth anniversary of the adoption of the Freedom Charter at Kliptown in 1955. A document about which there has been much debate, it is undoubtedly one of the most inspirational […]
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=Journalism for a democratic South Africa
THERE is still no definite explanation, political or financial, for the demise of the Rand Daily Mail forty years ago. But on 14 June 1985 the Weekly Mail (WM) was launched by redundant journalists. It […]
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=One hundred days
ONE hundred days! It feels like a hundred years; and one word sums up Trump.2: chaos. Is this personal, tactical or strategic? Those who know Donald Trump describe him as narcissistic, vindictive and attention seeking […]
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=Nothing to fear but fear itself
WHEN we discuss the strengths and virtues of liberal democracy, that political philosophy now under siege in the United States, it is the permissive freedoms that spring to mind such as rule of and equality […]
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=The power of a picture
IN the three-part drama Shooting the Past by the writer and director Stephen Poliakoff, the largely eccentric staff of a London photo archive of millions of items try to save their collection from destruction. The […]
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=The fascists are coming
THE AMERICAN people have not only elected a misogynist and convicted criminal as their 47th president, but a traitor. There can be no other conclusion. This is a man who incited violent insurrection by persistent […]
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=MKP’s first anniversary
ANGER stalks the world and seems evenly spread among the generations, although particularly prevalent among men as the crisis of masculinity grows. One would expect in this situation, whatever its genesis, that young charismatic leaders […]
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=A new world order?
RHODA Kadalie was a well-known radical, anti-apartheid South African feminist who worked as an academic and journalist. Yet, for the last few years of her life she moved to the USA and became a Donald […]
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=MAGA and the return of Trump
‘GOODBYE, America; it was nice knowing you.’ Those were the words of the British writer Philip Pullman the day Donald Trump was re-elected president of the United States. John Cusack, the American actor, reminded his […]
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=Persistent urban legend
EVERY Monday morning in the grounds of our local Anglican church modest food parcels are handed out. This began at a garden gate during the pandemic to help people who had lost jobs and resorted […]