Michael Neocosmos

Phyllis Naidoo, or Phyllie as I used to call her, was my ‘mum’. Like many others, most of them highly placed cadres in the ANC today, I was adopted as her son, something I am extremely proud of.

The courage, inventiveness and organisation of the people of North Africa, particularly in Tunisia and Egypt as the new year of 2011 was turning, have provided renewed enthusiasm for ‘people power’ and a popularly driven process of mass mobilisation in which people can not only force the resignat

The background and consequences of the recent violent destruction of the Kennedy Road organisation of the Abahlali baseMjondolo (AbM) movement of shack dwellers by a combination of gangs recruited for the purpose, police action and local and regional ANC str