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SELEBI DESERVES COMPASSION “The quality of mercy is not strain’d; it droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven upon the place beneath; it is twice blest; it blesseth him that gives and him that takes…” These are the words of Portia in Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice, as she tries to dissuade Shylock from cutting off a pound of flesh from Antonio’s body as punishment for failing to pay back the money he had loaned him. The citizens of this country might be disappointed and angry with Jackie Selebi for compromising his position as our Commissioner of Police by trifling with the criminal underworld in a manner that landed him in prison for fifteen years... Read more • 0 Comments Posted on 31 Jan 2012 by Administrator MISSING RAINBOW COLOURS How will we, ordinary South Africans, know when the cherished dream of a non-racial society has been achieved? How will such a society manifest itself? In other words, will we be able to recognize such a society if it “knocked at our door”? We are not talking about our political parties, which in their wisdom, would give us a perplexing array of policies on race and proposals on how to navigate this thorny issue in our country. The Black Consciousness Movement, for instance, which shaped my political outlook, believe the desired open society can best be pursued through the employment of Black Consciousness as a mobilization and conscientisation strategy... Read more • 1 Comments Posted on 18 Jan 2012 by Administrator AZAPO’S REACTION TO THE MATRIC RESULTS OF 2011 Today is once again that time of the year when learners and their families are jubilant because of the Matric Results of 2011. AZAPO joins the millions of South Africans in this jubilation and congratulates all successful Grade 12 learners. It is heartening to note that 12 years of dedication and hard work yielded positive results. In a sense the 70.2% national pass rate could be a signal that 2011 was on the whole a productive year of schooling. The nation looks forward to even greater achievements at the end of 2012... Read more • 0 Comments Posted on 18 Jan 2012 by Administrator RE-INVENTING GOVERNMENT BY ABOLISHING PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENTS The Azanian People’s Organisation (AZAPO) has always insisted that AZANIA (South Africa) is a unitary state. While other political parties opted for federalism and the balkanisation of AZANIA into “Bantustan-like” units, AZAPO maintained the unitary state stance through its characteristic slogan of “ONE AZANIA, ONE NATION”. AZAPO rejects with contempt the balkanisation of AZANIA into separate semi-autonomous units, known as “provincial governments”. The rationale AZAPO advances for the abolishment of provincial governments is simply that these “units” are an unnecessary duplication of national government... Read more • 0 Comments Posted on 18 Jan 2012 by Administrator POLITICS OF FEAR ENDURE Way back in the seventies, Steve Bantu Biko wrote about the dominant role fear played in South African politics. In his essay: Fear – an Important Determinant in South African Politics, he describes how whites fearing blacks, blacks fearing whites and the government fearing blacks, drove the conduct of politics in the country. It is that fear for blacks that propelled whites to enact one heinous law after another and build a formidable security establishment that at times appeared impregnable. You would have thought that with the advent of democracy seventeen years ago, fear in politics, together with the dompas and all it implied, would be relegated to the backwaters of history... Read more • 0 Comments Posted on 05 Dec 2011 by Administrator << Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Next >> Content Management Powered by CuteNews