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Month: September 2017

  • Hitmen for Hire: Exposing South Africa’s Underworld

    Mark SHAW, Hitmen for Hire: Exposing South Africa’s Underworld (Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball, 2017) WANT someone rubbed out? It could cost you as little as R10 000 in a society in which extreme violence is commonplace […]

    September 18, 2017Book Reviews

     
  • 57. Orwell’s Animal Farm in South Africa

    IN the closing scene of George Orwell’s brilliant allegory of political revolution, Animal Farm, the workers eavesdrop on a meeting at which their masters, the pigs, are fraternising with the traditional enemy, human beings. As […]

    September 16, 2017Reflections on the Rainbow Nation

     
  • 58. Party, state and public institutions

    IF you have ever watched what is arguably the BBC’s best-ever situation comedy, ‘Yes Minister’, you will recall the various facial expressions of Sir Humphrey Appleby (played by the Anglo-South African actor Nigel Hawthorne), the […]

    September 16, 2017Reflections on the Rainbow Nation

     
  • 59. Laugh It Off: taking on the corporates

    THE censorship system of the apartheid era was complex, savagely comprehensive and unwieldy; but full of loopholes. Often it brought fresh meaning to the concept of the absurd: the 1950s customs embargo on Anna Sewell’s […]

    September 15, 2017Reflections on the Rainbow Nation

     
  • 60. Globalisation: re-engineered capitalism and the South African response

    WHICH would you prefer: to be jobless most of the time, but able to afford cheap Chinese-made sandals; or employed in a shoe factory that contributes to the economic and social stability of your local […]

    September 15, 2017Reflections on the Rainbow Nation

     
  • 61. Targeting the press in a democratic South Africa

    THE year is still young, but even the most avid reader of South African news might be wilting. Racism; corruption; crime; crises in service delivery and sports administration; and mayhem on our roads hit the headlines with […]

    September 15, 2017Reflections on the Rainbow Nation

     
  • 62. Democracy under threat in the new South Africa

    IS recent South African history a saga of lost opportunities? Historians tend not to ask the perfectly natural question: what might have been? Perhaps it calls for too much speculation, but it is worth considering. Take World […]

    September 13, 2017Reflections on the Rainbow Nation

     
  • 63. Revolt in the townships

    IT is difficult to believe that liberated South Africa, fifteen years into its hard-earned democracy, is witness to stone-throwing township protestors facing police rubber bullets and teargas. This year there have been 24 major protests, […]

    September 13, 2017Reflections on the Rainbow Nation

     
  • Oliver Tambo: A Jacana Pocket Biography

    Hugh MACMILLAN, Oliver Tambo: A Jacana Pocket Biography (Johannesburg: Jacana, 2017) HAD it not been for the Treason Trial of 1956, Oliver Tambo would almost certainly have become an Anglican priest. He was close to […]

    September 7, 2017Book Reviews

     

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