Remembering Ashley, the Che Guevara of the Cape Flats
By Zubeida Jaffer Thirty-eight years ago this month, South African apartheid police murdered...
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Tag: democracy
A Moment of Presence: On Welcoming Ebrahim Rasool Home
By Aslam Fataar Among those gathered at Cape Town International Airport to welcome Ebrahim...
Read MoreWhen Truth is Desecrated
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...
Read MoreIn Memory of Phindile Xaba on Black Wednesday
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...
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Let’s choose a path where all can prosper
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.
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Open Letter To Cyril Ramaphosa
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.
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A shallow local democracy
In both July editions of The Journalists we have carried stories on the progress and challenges of...
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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...
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Haysom brings local skills to bear
The man refuses to sit down. His time is up. But still he continues to make his point. He is a Burundian businessman involved in an international business and not concerned about keeping to the time allotted him.
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