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Greatest AfricansAfricaJoburgSouth AfricaGreatest AfricansOn the 16th of June, we as a people will rise to a new day’s dawn. However, it will not be like any other ordinary Sunday morning, where gospel songs and hymns will be the order of the day. On this coming Sunday, we will add a little prayer of thanksgiving for a generation of young people, who chose in the darkest days of our struggle ...
Following attacks on peaceful protestors outside the ministry of defence in Sudan last week Monday by security forces and the civil disobedience in an attempt to get the Transitional Military Council to hand over government power to civilian rule the people of Sudan have been subjected to untold violence at the hand of various para-mil...
South Africans once again have heard depressing economic news that the South African economy contracted by -3.2%, which represented the biggest quarterly economic contraction in a decade. However, even with the nightmare we have, the African National Congress has continued to be at the centre of providing policy uncertainty. You had th...
Knowledge about Norway’s role in colonialism in Africa is rather nebulous. Due to the more prominent colonising nations such as your Great Britain, Germany, France, etc., who were already in prime position to sink their claws in the colonies when the “scramble for Africa” took off and whose colonial legacies are still readily traceable...
Many scholars and critics still erroneously hold the view that the 1976 uprisings were virtually spontaneous if insufficiently coordinated events that lacked the support and therefore the ‘maturity’ of adults in the communities. However, what we know of the Black Consciousness Movement’s (BCM) involvement in the high school students-le...
“As I stood in one corner of that vast tumult waiting for the arrival of the Minister, I felt intense bitterness welling up in my mouth. Here were silly, ignorant villagers dancing themselves lame and waiting to blow off their gunpowder ...
The month of May was all graced with excitement and glimmer of a new dawn on the political front. The general elections came and went, with the governing party receiving a reduced majority. After the formalities of processing the parliam...