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Medialternatives
Reaching out from the Global South
Activism - Page 36
I was banned on Black Wednesday
This is the email I sent out yesterday: I WAS BANNED ON BLACK WEDNESDAY Today, I awoke to find out that I had been banned by Politicsweb. Being banned on "Black Wednesday" is more than a little ironic. The centre-right political site, which carries commentary from political parties and commentato...
Are our arms sales promoting conflict?
BUYERS of South African defence industry products last year include sales to countries involved in conflict, in turn the country received weapons and military hardware from nations also involved in conflict zones. The recent wave of student unrest has seen locally produced Nyala APC become a comm...
Dawn of environmentalism: eco-activism during apartheid
DURING the struggle I was active on campus. Following the campus unrest at UCT, similar in many respects to the current youth revolt against the system, I enrolled in a course in environmental geoscience whilst also studying politics. It became clear the way forward was to ‘politicise ecology and...
SA Law has a crisis of legitimacy
THE AGE of Enlightenment eroded the power of kings, birthed modern democracy and produced a political model known as the social contract. Typically the theory in moral and political philosophy addresses 'questions of the origin of society and the legitimacy of the authority of the state over the...
Blasphemy making a comeback?
SOUTH AFRICA like most Western countries has a shameful history of blasphemy legislation associated with Judeo-Christian strictures on 'invoking the lord's name in vain', prohibitions on satirising of the crucifixion and the retelling of biblical stories in any manner not condoned by the Church....
