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MEMBER STATEMENT ON MEDIA FREEDOM South Africa is abuzz with discussions relating to the issue the Protection of Information Bill and the Media Tribunal. The atmosphere generated by the debate around Media freedom and the proposed Media Tribunal has brought restlessness to some of us. The arrest of the Journalist Mzilikazi Wa Afrika did not help the situation. There has been a general unpleasantness and an outcry from Journalists, Organizations of Civil Society, including SANEF... Read more • 0 Comments Posted on 19 Aug 2010 by Administrator EXORCISE THESE DEMONS Can you picture a whole community coming together in a meeting and taking a conscious decision to burn some of their schools, prevent all their children from going to school indefinitely and then unashamedly announcing that they are using the education of their children as a weapon in their dispute with the government? That is exactly what the villagers... Read more • 1 Comments Posted on 04 Aug 2010 by Administrator WE ARE NOT NEGROPHOBIC Since its independence from Britain in 1966, Botswana has hosted hundreds of thousands of refugees from Angola, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Lesotho and South Africa. And in these many decades of harbouring foreigners, there was never a single incident of an outbreak of violence between its nationals and refugees. The same can be said about other SADC countries that won their freedom at different times, but certainly decades before ours. They also accommodated foreign nationals in their countries... Read more • 0 Comments Posted on 19 Jul 2010 by Administrator TERRIBLE RUINATION OF YOUNG LIVES To those of us who have gone through the rite of passage called koma/ukoloka or initiation, as it is called in English, these frequent reports of the deaths of initiates or their spine chilling injuries, are as painful as they are extremely annoying. Every new report about a needless death or hospitalization feels like a fresh thrust of a dagger in one’s heart. We were a group of well over three hundred boys when I went through initiation back in 1957 in the Tzaneen area, and all of us returned to our homes safely... Read more • 0 Comments Posted on 07 Jul 2010 by Administrator THE JUNE 16 UPRISING UNSHACKLED: A BLACK PERSPECTIVE In an interview wherein he was asked to demonstrate the potency of black consciousness, Steve Biko answered in one word, “Soweto”.  That bold statement was an unequivocal reference to the June 16 uprising.  Biko, the founding father of the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM), makes it clear by this statement that June 16 was no fluke or accident of history.  It was a reflection of the determination of a people to fight till the last person – till the last drop of blood of that last person – against all forces of oppression emanating from the theft of their land by the white colonial settlers.  This was the unflinching resolve of a heroic people who would no longer endure the raping of their women... Read more • 0 Comments Posted on 29 Jun 2010 by Administrator << Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 Next >> Content Management Powered by CuteNews