Hamba Kahle PC
by Ebrahim Harvey Obituary: Phiroshaw Camay (1947 – 2016) Phiroshaw Camay, who very sadly passed away last week, was probably my closest friend and comrade for over three decades. “PC”, as he was affectionately known, was a veteran and stalwart of the labour movement and civil society in South Africa. His passing has created a […]
Marikana: A State Of No Apologies
The families of slain miners seek compensation for their losses – and an apology from government, writes Niren Tolsi Three years after their husbands were shot dead by police on August 16 2012 at Marikana, Zameka Nungu and Betty Gadlela are still waiting for a simple apology from the government that killed their families’ […]
State of the Nation(al Wake)
Parliament re-opens on February 12 2015 with President Jacob Zuma’s annual State of the Nation address. It’s a moment that is being more keenly anticipated than usual, as we wait to see whether the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) will make good on speculation that they will disrupt Zuma’s address, in an attempt to force […]
‘White Foreigners’: History Repeating
Terry Bell Gwede Mantashe, former chairman of the SA Communist Party, former general secretary of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) and now the powerful secretary-general of the governing ANC, sounded furious this week. In what must qualify as the most ironic case of “we’ve heard all that before”, he blamed the platinum […]