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Month: April 2017

  • Hitler, Verwoerd, Mandela and Me: A Memoir of Sorts

    Marianne THAMM, Hitler, Verwoerd, Mandela and Me: A Memoir of Sorts (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 2016) THE British newspaper The Guardian runs, alongside its conventional obituaries, a parallel series called ‘Other lives’. South African publishing of […]

    April 26, 2017Book Reviews

     
  • Confronting the Corrupt: Accountability Now’s Battle Against Graft in SA

    Paul HOFFMAN, Confronting the Corrupt: Accountability Now’s Battle Against Graft in SA (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 2016) CADRE deployment is the key to the epidemic of corruption that has systematically eaten away at the fabric of […]

    April 26, 2017Book Reviews

     
  • Endorsing war criminals

    HULLABALOO: it’s a word often applied to South African politics – and with good reason. In the year in which Jacob Zuma should relinquish the presidency of the African National Congress (and, much of the […]

    April 26, 2017Sharp Thoughts

     
  • Uncle Kathy’s legacy and South Africa’s second liberation struggle

    ONE by one they gradually disappear from national political life. Ahmed Mohamed ‘Uncle Kathy’ Kathrada died on 28 March leaving behind just two fellow Rivonia trialists from 1964, Andrew Mlangeni and Denis Goldberg. And with […]

    April 1, 2017Sharp Thoughts

     

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