Comment & analysis

The recent Troy Davis case sparked a firestorm of digital outcries. Online protests were launched along with petitions. Amnesty International collected over 630,000 signatures in support of Davis. Twitter and Facebook were both taken over by hash tags and updates.

An article I recently received from Patricia Khan (How global investors make money out of hunger, by Horand Knaup, Michaela Schiessl and Anne Seith, published by Speigel Online) is an excellent treatment of the effects

The Israeli embassy in Cairo was in flames on 8 September. Furious demonstrators had broken down the protective wall surrounding the building and had set fire. The Israeli ambassador left the country as a precaution.

‘IF I WERE THE US’

After a wait of two and a half years the Department of Rural Development and Land Reform (the Department) has finally produced the much awaited Green Paper on Land Reform that runs to a total of 11 pages.

There is academic research, literature, documentaries, recently the film the 'Whistleblower', and most pertinently, the accounts of women in countries which experience conflict, all of which document the link between militarisation and the sexual exploitation of women, including through trafficki

One of the major features of the proposed electoral reforms is the possible introduction of a localised voting system which will be conducted using polling station-based voters’ rolls. This means a voter will only vote at the polling-station at which his or her name appears on the voters’ roll.

With the news of what happened to Aberash surfacing and spreading like wild-fire as of yesterday, her wounds and her pain are symbolic of a dysfunctional society stained by the tears and blood of countless women whose cries and plea have often gone unheard and silenced by the taboos of culture.

As rebels moved into Tripoli, Libya’s capital, US president Barrack Obama said that ‘The Gaddafi regime is showing signs of collapsing. The people of Libya are showing that the universal pursuit of dignity and freedom is far stronger than the iron fist of a dictator’.

On 24 July 2011, Kelebohile Nkhereanye and Renee Boyd confidently walked up a flight of stairs inside Brooklyn’s Municipal Building City Hall on a sweltering Sunday morning.