For Those We Cannot Grieve
There has been a Hebrew Facebook page circulating that demands the murder of one Palestinian every hour that the three Israeli teenagers, who disappeared on June 12 while hitchhiking late at night in the West Bank, are missing. The dead bodies of the three teens were found two nights ago near Hebron. Although evidence […]
The Uncelebrated Feast
President Jacob Zuma is set to be inaugurated on Saturday for his second term, with Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan stating in March this year that R120-million had been set aside for the event. This is a substantial increase on the R75-million spent on Zuma’s inauguration in 2009. Then last week Minister in the Presidency Collins Chabane […]
R.I.P Pete Seeger
Pete Seeger, who died this week at the age of 94, was a decent, faithful human being. A left-wing activist and American folk-protest-singer who irresistably melded political consciousness to song-crafting. He lived life without the egoism of rock music, but rather, with the empathy of activism. His work was fundamental to the Civil Rights and Anti-War […]