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Does blackness have a heart?

Does blackness have a heart?

JOE SLOVO, David Webster, Neil Aggett, Harold Wolpe, Michael Lapsley, Ruth First, Helen Joseph, Lionel Bernstein, Beyers Naude, Bram Fischer, Trevor Huddleston, Peter Hain, just some of the many activists classified as white by the apartheid gover...

Book Review: The Long Road to Liberation (Hans Beukes)

Book Review: The Long Road to Liberation (Hans Beukes)

A WELCOME departure from the boring back-and-forth, in public discourse concerning Namibia's road to independence, between triumphalist nationalism and begrudging paternalism/racism ("we heroically defeated apartheid/imperialism" vs. "we had to stop communist terrorism/defend civilisation"). Hans...

Book Review: “Our Land, Our Rent, Our Jobs”

Book Review: “Our Land, Our Rent, Our Jobs”

THIS BOOK is rather academic for the general reader but as the title suggests, it's distinctly activist in tone; this review addresses it not academically, but from an activist viewpoint. Written by middle-class South Africans, it is animated by frustration if not anxiety at the increasing "sea o...

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