Comment & analysis

After almost 21 years, affirmative action has not taken root in South Africa and most sectors of the economy, including academic institutions, remain “untransformed”.

"I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood. That the speaking profits me, beyond any other effect."- Audre Lorde

After my last article, I swore not to comment anymore on Dr. James Cuno’s statements in order to avoid any impression that I was unduly concentrating on the opinions of one scholar.

International Women’s Day 2015 [celebrated on Sunday, 8 March"> aims to encourage effective action for advancing and recognizing women. In a piece I wrote on this occasion in 2014, I argued for collective action within our spheres of influence for a better deal for women and girls.

Martyred Burkinabe revolutionary Pan-Africanist and Marxist leader from 1983-1987, Capt. Thomas Sankara, was assassinated in a coup on October 15, 1987. He was only 37 years old.

As I was studying the Public Audit Bill, I was surprised to see a clause which gives the Attorney General (AG) very considerable powers over the Auditor General (AuG) as to the information he must not disclose, including information that “would unfairly prejudice the commercial interests of any b

1. I want to thank my colleagues Chief Charles A.

Who are you?” the late Muammar Gaddafi once rhetorically asked in a famous speech of his towards the end of his reign; (rightly) questioning the legitimacy of those seeking to over-throw his government at the time, calling them extremists, foreign agents, rats and drug-addicts.

In This Book Has No Title, Jarod Kintz induces an enigmatic syringe, “In the land of Gibberish, the man who makes sense, the man who speaks clearly, clearly speaks nonsense.” Zambia presently looks like a land where those who make sense, who speak clearly, clearly speak nonsense.

This week at the 59th convening Session for the Commission on the Status of Women at the United Nations in New York, the international community will acknowledge and celebrate the accomplishments made towards achieving gender equality and advancing women’s rights in the 20 years since the adoptio