democracy Archives - Zubeida Jaffer

J M Coetzee praises NWASA as controversy over Jerusalem Festival exchange grows

by nurene | May 18, 2026 | Articles, Home Page Featured Posts, Written by Zubeida | 0

Nobel laureate J M Coetzee backs NWASA amid growing controversy over Gaza, cultural boycotts and the Jerusalem Festival exchange.

Remembering Ashley, the Che Guevara of the Cape Flats

by nurene | Jul 10, 2025 | Books, History, Home Page Featured Posts, Written by Zubeida | 0

By Zubeida Jaffer Thirty-eight years ago this month, South African apartheid police murdered...

A Moment of Presence: On Welcoming Ebrahim Rasool Home

by nurene | Mar 24, 2025 | Articles, Written by Others | 0

By Aslam Fataar Among those gathered at Cape Town International Airport to welcome Ebrahim...

When Truth is Desecrated

by thevirtualhut | May 10, 2024 | History | 0

Friday May 10 2024 The Democratic Alliance’s symbolic desecration of a national symbol is not the most disturbing aspect of the recent flag-burning advertisement. Granted, as most commentators have said, it is a crude effort to...

In Memory of Phindile Xaba on Black Wednesday

by Ruschka Jaffer Site Administrator | Oct 15, 2022 | Articles | 0

Zubeida Jaffer, Shepi Mati, Frank Meintjies and Phindile Xaba South Africa has come a long way from the dark day of October 19, 1977 when the Apartheid regime squeezed the noose tightly around press freedom. Known as Black...

Let’s choose a path where all can prosper

by nebuladesignsCT | Apr 11, 2018 | Articles | 0

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela was probably one of the world’s most well know freedom fighters, who tirelessly campaigned for an end to apartheid injustice. Award winning journalist Zubeida Jaffer argues that it’s time for all of us to pick up the baton left by stalwarts like Winnie and to fight as she did for a South Africa which benefits all.

Open Letter To Cyril Ramaphosa

by | Jan 31, 2018 | Articles | 0

I would like you to seek assistance to change the narrative that gives local business the right to hoard their resources at the expense of the public. They cannot expect you and your team to encourage foreign investment while they hoard resources that all of us have helped them create.