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They should please not choose someone of whom most of us would be ashamed. Our country deserves better. We’re very worried that [Zuma] had relations with a woman who regarded him as a parent; and, although he is very likable, we have to ask ourselves: ‘What is happening in the ANC?'” (Nobel Laureate Archbishop Desmond… Read more.
Sadly, nobody will be surprised by the word association of basket case and contagion with Africa. Moreover, I am acutely aware that bailout fatigue to save the American economy makes pleas to bail out any African economy seem foolhardy. Not to mention reports that a record number of Americans (31.5 million) now rely on food stamps.… Read more.
During the presidential debate on Tuesday night, Barack Obama won praise from the worldwide liberal establishment when he said that the US has a moral obligation to use military force for humanitarian purposes. He stressed, however, that just as the US must eschew unilateral action in favor of multilateral action in fighting the war on… Read more.
In a truly extraordinary development, Gwede Mantashe, the secretary general of South Africa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC), called a press conference on Saturday to announce that: [T]he party’s top-level National Executive Committee [NEC] has decided to recall the president of the republic before his term of office expires. Then, in a bit of political doublespeak… Read more.
Nobody who knows Mugabe can possibly believe that he will ever accept defeat at the polls. After all, this man is a genocidal megalomaniac who is congenitally disposed to war. Therefore, it will take a war, the likes of which Africa has not seen in years, to wrest power from his hands. [Mugabe makes a… Read more.
I am proud of the fact that I participated in the US-led international protests during the 1980s that precipitated the end of white rule (Apartheid) in South Africa. And I remember thinking back then that a South Africa ruled by liberated blacks could be the beacon of hope and the land of opportunity for Africans… Read more.
“No good deed goes unpunished” and “the road to hell is paved with good intentions” are two aphorisms that sum up the scandal now tarnishing the reputation of the most powerful woman on television, Oprah Winfrey. Because, less than a year after the January grand opening of her $40-million “leadership academy for girls” in Johannesburg,… Read more.
Indeed, no good deed goes unpunished. This familiar expression aptly describes the unwarranted criticisms of Oprah Winfrey’s school for African girls. Criticisms of Oprah’s school for African girls For years, the media hailed Oprah as a saint. Now they seem hell-bent on reminding her that she’s all too human. Except that they are using a school she built to tear her… Read more.
Last summer, I wrote an article condemning the South African government for its provincial policy towards the treatment of HIV/AIDS, which kills more people in South Africa than in any other country in the world. I condemned the government because, instead of adopting the established pharmacological protocols that have proved most effective, it sent Health… Read more.
Kola Boof: lost girl speaks out Kola Boof is promoting her autobiography, Diary of a Lost Girl, all over TV. This Egyptian-Sudanese-American is an award-winning novelist, poet, and activist. But, unsurprisingly, her relationship with Osama Bin Laden is all anyone wants to talk about. Kola writes about it in dramatic and thrilling detail. Reading it, you might think her… Read more.
