Comment & analysis

The campaign is conducted largely through regime lackey-proxies, stooges and puppets. Through its minions, the regime has used the most loathsome words, inflammatory rhetoric and repugnant imagery to describe Menelik’s alleged brutality in his quest for territorial conquest.

There is one thing that the so-called peace conference on Syria was guaranteed to achieve and that is that when the last speech is made and the delegates leave the hall, the grotesque bloodletting and devastation will continue for the people of Syria. Why?

On January 15, 2014, the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. would have been 85 years old, as he was born in Atlanta, Georgia, on January 15, 1929.

Some 900 km from Cairo, 46 years old Mohamed stands in front of a blast furnace, with a temperature reaching 450°C. Each day, for the past 11 years, this has part of his job at the ferrosilicon factory in Edfu.

The United States is a country which openly and unashamedly targets black people for police surveillance, prosecution, incarceration and death. Racism is the fuel which feeds the monster of criminal injustice, making a mockery of any claims of democracy and equal treatment under the law.

African Americans and Black South Africans have shared a special relationship within the larger African Diaspora.

In 2014, Americans and friends of America are mark the 50th Anniversary of U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson’s openly-declared War on Poverty. In January, as America and the world celebrate the 85th birthday of Rev. Dr.

The South economy is the largest in Africa. Yet, since 2009 SA has had the distinction of beating the entire world as the most economically skewed society. This lopsidedness is not new.

The end year public opinion polls are in. The prognosis is not good.

More than half the people think the country is headed in the wrong direction.

I have refrained from commenting on the pact between the All Progressives Alliance (APC) and the “new PDP” because, to some extent, I am involved.