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It’s the daily subjugation of women in all its discriminatory, violent, and deadly manifestations. Commenting on the rising number of women and children who have been killed since the start of the month, Latifa Jacobs, of One Billion Rising SA, said: ‘In South Africa, we are more at risk of being raped and killed than… Read more.
Nelson Mandela Day is all about mobilizing people, governments, NGOs, and corporations to take steps every day to make this world a better place. Here, courtesy of mandeladay.com, are 10 Sisyphean goals the Nelson Mandela Day organization will be championing over the next 10 years: Goal 1 – Provision of quality education for all children.… Read more.
The ruling African National Congress (ANC) gave President Jacob Zuma an ultimatum on Monday: resign by Wednesday or be impeached on Thursday (via vote of no-confidence). True to form, the hopelessly beleaguered Zuma strutted and fretted his case on TV until the eleventh hour and then resigned. No doubt he’s now hoping the sinecure he… Read more.
Justice for Oscar Pistorius Oscar Pistorius became more famous after he murdered his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, than he ever was as a track star. It’s like how O.J. Simpson became more famous after he murdered his wife, Nicole Brown, than he ever was as a football player. The fateful symmetry began with Pistorius’s trial. Just like O.J.’s trial in America, the media… Read more.
Scandals of all types have characterized Jacob Zuma’s presidency. I have decried those scandals in far too many commentaries. A case in point is “Jacob Zuma Issues Professional Fatwa against Cartoonist Zapiro,” December 22, 2008, which includes this prophetic cry: It is a fact, however, that Zuma got off scot-free on a charge of raping a… Read more.
Which is in the death throes of becoming a Zimbabwean mess. An esteemed judge famously found that the leaders of a failed state I know all too well showed “clear signs of political amorality, immaturity and general administrative incompetence.” Therefore, it speaks volumes that South African leaders make the leaders of that failed state look… Read more.
People in Pretoria, Cape Town, Port Elizabeth and Johannesburg took to the streets, insisting that corruption has worsened in South Africa since Zuma came to power in 2009… President Zuma caused nationwide anger last week when he dismissed Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene and replaced him with Desmond van Rooyen. The move resulted in an immediate… Read more.
I must begin with a little rant about cable news networks. They do so much to annoy and dismay these days – with their beating-a-dead-horse coverage of any and everything – I invariably tune out after just a few minutes. This was the case on Friday when they began broadcasting reporters scavenging through the home of… Read more.
African leaders are beaming with foolish pride today over the way they conspired to help Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir abscond from justice. They perpetrated this conspiracy during an African Union summit in South Africa last weekend. Even though dismayed, I am not surprised. After all, I presaged this years ago in “Arresting Bashir? Even more of… Read more.
Frankly, I don’t see how anyone with any common sense can still think I was wrong to denounce Winnie years ago. It seems Nelson Mandela is proving too great a self-aggrandizing prop for some to let him go. Which brings me to his ex-wife, Winnie Madikizela–Mandela. Because nobody has done more to bask in the god-like… Read more.
