Don't laugh off the NDR John Kane-Berman, PoliticsWeb 4 April 2016   Image: John Kane-Berman speaks about the power of ideas in driving nations, photo credit to © 2016 Tshikululu Site disclaimer.   One of the things Donald Trump has going for him in the race for the Republican Party's American presidential nomination is that the party establishment failed to take him seriously. Although Mr Trump has not yet secured the nomination, the

UN Slams South Africa Ills in Damning Report Yadhana Jadoo 31 March 2016 Police fire rubber bullets at residents at point blank range,13 March 2014, in Bekkersdal, Westonaria. Residents protested by blocading streets and pelting police cars over a ellection campaign planned by the ANC. Picture: Alaister Russell The UN yesterday highlighted various human rights issues in South Africa. Racism and xenophobia, excessive use of force by police, torture

South Africa's President Jacob Zuma Continues To Receive Support Of ANC Despite Poor Record Jinger Jarrett,The Inquisitr News 21 March  2016   South Africa’s president Jacob Zuma once again received a ringing endorsement from the African National Congress (ANC), the ruling party of South Africa. Their endorsement comes as Zuma once again faces another scandal involving one of South Africa’s most powerful families, the Guptas. The Guptas are

Supreme Court of Appeal Rules on Bashir Case News Release from the Southern Africa Litigation Centre 15 March 2016       Johannesburg- On 15 March 2016, the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) ruled that the South African government had a duty to arrest President Omar al Bashir in terms of domestic and international law and that failure to arrest him was unlawful.   President Omar al Bashir is wanted by the International Criminal

South Africa's racial mania RW Johnson writes on what is driving the current hypersensitivity to issues of race RW Johnson, Politicsweb                                                                                                                                           1 March 2016     Image: South

Anthea Jeffery: Creeping land nationalisation is no poverty solution in South Africa Anthea Jeffery*, BizNews South Africa 1 March  2016                                                                                                                                                           The

'I don't need your civil war' Tom Eaton, The Times, South Africa 1 March, 2016     Image: The blood dimmed time: A Bophuthatswana policeman finishes off two wounded AWB men in March 1994. Scenes like this will be commonplace if SA slides into a race war. by Cobus Bodenstein   "There is a race war in South Africa. It is 364 years old. Though we agreed to cease fire 22 years ago, we are agreeing to open fire again." It was just one of

We Can't Ignore The Worrying Signs of Genocide in Africa Gregory Stanton, Mail and Guardian, South Africa 29 January 2016     How do we make sure there’s not a return to the horror of Rwanda or Biafra? I have spent a lifetime working on the study of genocide, what causes it and how we can prevent the kind of mass killing that haunted the past century. From Armenia and the Nazi Holocaust to the Soviet Gulag, the Chinese Cultural Revolution,

ANCYL to Thwart EFF ‘Civil War Plan’ By Bongani Hans, IOL 29 June 2015   Image: Julius Malema. The EFF would contest all wards countrywide during next year municipal elections, Julius Malema said. File photo: Leon Lestrade. Copyright 2015 Leon Lestrade Durban - EFF commander-in-chief Julius Malema has been accused of hatching a civil war plan and now the ANC Youth League is preparing what it claims will be the mother of all marches to declare

A Cry from the Heart of a South African Refugee in a Camp in Serbia I am very disappointed that I won my appeal, and still nothing was done to free me from camp life or allowing me to work to start replenishing all the money I lost due to not being legally allowed to work. I am disappointed that after winning my appeal, my asylum process is not over yet and I am free again. It makes no sense to me that I win my appeal and there is nothing official