Articles
Why the fuss about DAVOS?
By Zubeida Jaffer Why is there such a fuss about the importance of the World Economic Forum? The annual meeting at Davos will only ever make a difference to our lives if the rules of economic engagement are changed. And there was no substantial talk of that in 2017....
Hungry Students: A Public Health Crisis
Only 15% of our students make it all the way to graduation day. Part of the reason is that most of them are just too hungry to learn. By Linda Fekisi & Zubeida Jaffer When Samantha gets up at dawn to start the journey from her home in the shadow of the Lesotho...
Maxeke: SA’s first female black graduate
Original post from : http://www.iol.co.za/capetimes/maxeke-sas-first-female-black-graduate-2088160
The Fifth Annual Imam Abdullah Haron Memorial Lecture
“Has tolerance no limits?” Why the education crisis persists Jonathan D Jansen University of the Free State 2 October 2012 Introduction Two events of seismic proportions shook the Western Cape in the closing days of September 1969. The first was the...
Stop the Palestinian Occupation
By Zubeida Jaffer The crisis in the Gaza has its roots in the events of the two world wars. At the end of the First World War, Lord Arthur Balfour, the British foreign secretary, drafted a declaration that recognized the establishment of a Jewish homeland in...
The Soft Punch: The pitfalls of assimilation
Transformation in South Africa has taken on vague and even negative connotations. Two decades of democracy and we seem to have reached a cul de sac. It’s a raw nerve… when you touch it expressions of pain and anger escape. After four years at the University of the...
Mr FW de Klerk’s speech
This is a copy of Mr.FW de Klerk's speech dated: 1 February 1991.
We, the People: Insights of an Activist Judge
By Albie Sachs In his new book, activist and former judge Albie Sachs builds on South Africans’ renewed faith in the power of the Constitution. We, the People: Insights of an Activist Judge will be launched at Cavendish Square on Tuesday 22 November 2016 and Sachs...
It’s all about food sovereignity, not food security, stupid
By Zubeida Jaffer Activists from around the country are gearing up for a national dialogue on the right to food in November. They plan to kick start a movement for food sovereignty in South Africa. The African Centre for BioSafety in collaboration with the Foundation...
Things can fall apart
by Zubeida Jaffer* A plan in the making has finally come together. When President Zuma addressed the nation, he brought together the different elements of work of his economic ministers. Last year's SONA spoke about the government's commitment to job creation. This...
Egypt
A troubled country. The boats decorated with bright colourful lights sail endlessly down the nile through the night. Cairo never sleeps. Looking out over the Nile, from the 14th floor where I live, everything appears very normal. But the handful of people in those...
Rudyard Kipling, in Just So Stories (1902)
My first encounter with 5 W’s and an H was when I was a student at Rhodes University in 1978. By then some of my classmates were familiar with the problem solving method because they were taught this in High School English. I don’t think there can be any journalist...
MK Commissars stand similar to one taken 47 years ago led by Hani
By Shepi Mati and Zubeida Jaffer The last time MK Commissars took a strong stand in pointing out the enormous discontent in the ranks of the ANC was in the late sixties. This initiative led to the now famous Morogoro Conference in 1969 which redefined the way forward...
Mbeki says Biko is a Xhosa prophet
By Zubeida Jaffer* Steve Biko is a Xhosa prophet. Author and commentator, Moeletsi Mbeki made this extraordinary statement at the Franschoek Literary Festival this past weekend. His presentation was peppered with little quips and at first I thought this was just...
Press Clippings and General Photos
Photographs of media articles and general images from various events and meetings.
A shallow local democracy
In both July editions of The Journalists we have carried stories on the progress and challenges of local government in several towns, villages and cities throughout the country. Here Zubeida Jaffer, publisher of The Journalist, goes in search of answers to key...
Charlotte Maxeke written back into history
In the lead up to the 60th celebration of the 20,000 women who marched strong against the pass laws, and as we see the resurgence of women-led activism on campuses across the country, Zubeida Jaffer’s new book on the historical activist, Charlotte Mannya Maxeke, could not have come at a better time.
Philosophy curriculum ‘not detached from continent’
The publisher of The Journalist, Zubeida Jaffer, last week entered the fray following a public spat between two UCT academics, David Benatar and Xolile Mangcu, over issues of transformation and decolonization at the university. The pieces have appeared on the pages of...
Once Upon A Time: Context Matters
http://www.thejournalist.org.za/pioneers/once-upon-a-time-context-matters
South Africa, Post-Trauma
In the house of the hangman one should not speak of the noose…One wants to break free of the past: rightly, because nothing can live in its shadow, and because there will be no end to the terror as long as guilt and violence are repaid guilt and violence; wrongly,...
Extracts from 69 Days by Rev Chris Wessels
IN KRUGER’S CLUTCHES “Strip! No, everything. Your socks also. Yes, you may keep your underpants on.” They leave. The clanging of the keys in the first set of doors, and then in the second … Footsteps die away, and an unearthly silence descends on the place. The...
Bennie Bunsee
By Keabetswe Magano Two years ago I had the opportunity to meet and witness the brilliance of Bennie Bunsee, the man with 50 000+ books in his home. At first I thought we were meeting him in a small community library but it was his home. There were book shelves filled...
Turquoise Harmony Institute Awards 2015
The Publisher of The Journalist, Zubeida Jaffer has received a Media award for her fearless commitment to journalism and a free media. The Publisher of The Journalist has called for action to secure the release of close to 50 journalists who are jailed in Turkey....
Celebrating women through stories
By Zubeida Jaffer The women of Cape Town remind me of the grey-blue mountains that hug our shores. They are forever present. They have been here for thousands of years giving life to those who have lived and live here at the furthermost point of Africa. Their stories...
UCT Academics Lock Horns
Two senior University of Cape Town academics have locked horns about a range of matters related to higher education transformation challenges, stirring interesting exchanges. The viewpoints of professors Xolela Mangcu and David Benatar were aired on the pages of The...
The Journalist’s Woolworths GMO story was correct
A recent series of articles on Genetically Modified Organisms, plant or meat products that have had their DNA artificially altered, at the food and clothing retailer Woolworths sparked intense public reaction. After apologising to Woolworths because we relied on a 1999 story to hold them to their commitment to ‘ban’ GMO some new evidence has come to light.
THE EIGHT YEARS OF JAN VAN RIEBEECK
By Zubeida Jaffer Jan Van Riebeeck arrived in South Africa in 1652. Who of my generation does not know this? It was drilled into all our minds at primary school. And even if we were not lucky enough to go to school, the mythology certainly did not pass us by. The...
Parliament & The Red Coats
Whose dignity is it anyway?
Govt operates at the pace of a village cow
“In Soccer, if you don’t listen to the referee, there can be no game,” says the Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Lechesa Tsenoli, defending the actions of officials in the latest fracas. The Journalist Publisher Zubeida Jaffer nailed him down between rounds in the...
South African scholar at Stanford questions Mandela statues
By Erik Fredner In the year since Nelson Mandela's death on Dec. 5, 2013, the impetus to commemorate the South African leader has increased around the globe, with memorials already completed in South Africa, the United Kingdom, the United States, Peru, the Netherlands...