Nelson Mandela: The Crossing
As a boy without a father of his own and living as a ward of the Thembu Regent, Jongintaba Dalindyebo, at his Great Place at Mqekezweni in the green hills of the Transkei…
Para Mandela de Fidel
Visitaste nuestra Patria y te solidarizaste con ella, cuando todavía no eras Presidente de Sudáfrica elegido libremente por el pueblo. Hoy la humanidad está amenazada por el mayor riesgo en toda la historia…
“Un ideal por el que estoy dispuesto a morir”
El siguiente es un fragmento del alegato de Nelson Mandela, el 20 de abril de 1964, ante la Corte Suprema de Pretoria en el Juicio de Rivonia, que lo condenó a 27 años…
Madiba, Mandela: un revolucionario
No os equivoquéis: miramos a Mandela cuando decimos que el miedo tiene que cambiar de bando. Para que vosotros, los que encarcelásteis a Mandela y ahora lo celebráis, perdais la impunidad de vuestra…
Swiss Parliament Debate on the Decision to Keep the Archive Closed on the Involvement of Companies with Apartheid
Twenty Years into South Africa’s Democracy the Swiss Federal Government refuses to uplift the seal on the records of Swiss Private Sector Involvement with Apartheid South Africa and its Government. Khulumani 05 Dec…
Ask Boaventura #11 – Constitutions and Transformation
Question: Do you believe that the necessary transformation can be achieved through the prevailing liberal democratic institutional framework established by the South African constitution? (Sanele Sibanda, South Africa) You can also send your…
South Africa: How to Address Unemployment, Land and Wealth Inequality?
Structural poverty, exacerbated by falling employment, has dogged South Africa since 1994. Subsequently unemployment has officially increased from around one fifth of the active workforce, to a quarter today. The unofficial “expanded” and…
Asia in My Life: an article by Ngugi wa Thiong’o
The links between Asia and Africa and South America have always been present but in our times they have been made invisible by the fact that Europe is still the central mediator of…
A Hundred Years after the 1913 Land Act
There have been many rural struggles since then, perhaps most famously the Mpondo Revolt that began in 1960. But there has never been a rural movement, or sustained rural struggles, in the same…
Will Barack Obama get a frosty reception when he visits South Africa this weekend?
In a way, Cape Town mayor Patricia de Lille’s decision to award US president Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama the Freedom of the City (Cape Town’s highest honor), sort of makes…
