Andile Mngxitama of the September National Imbizo is part of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), handling the drafting of its election manifesto and its international relations division. He spoke to The Con about Malema’s “decimation of the left” and how it became “childish” to pursue a leftist agenda outside of the EFF. Why did you […]
If you look at the world through Courtenay Griffiths QC’s eyes then, inevitably, you look at the world through the lens of Karl Marx. “Remember your Marx,” exhorts the Jamaican-born, British-raised Queen’s Counsel several times during a recent interview in Johannesburg. In the interview he sketches out a world where the national interests of […]
Book Excerpt: The Pacemen: 100 Years of South African Fastbowlers (Pan Macmillan) by Drew Forrest Drew Forrest’s history of South African pacemen includes the famous, the infamous and those forgotten by the mainstream history. In this chapter, Forrest examines the life – and speed – of the “red-hot trundler” H “Krom” Hendricks, a cricketer from the […]
On the night of September 26, 2009 members of shackdweller movement Abahlali baseMjondolo’s youth wing were attacked by an armed mob chanting anti-Pondo slogans at the Kennedy Road settlement’s community hall in Durban. In the dark the violence spread. In the light of day, two people were found dead, while hundreds others from the […]