Comment & analysis

Barack Obama has the most difficult job in the world.

If democracy is government of the people, by the people and for the people, a thugogracy is a government of thieves, for thieves, by thieves. Simply stated, a thugtatorship is rule by a gang of thieves and robbers (thugs) in designer suits.

Once upon a time there was a country, whose people endured and braved more than a century of colonial minority rule. Their resistance against foreign domination resulted at the beginning of the 20th century in forms of genocide against parts of the people.

Young, strong, sharp, reality’s electric in your present tense – this is who you are before the phone rings:

‘Dead? Murdered, who was?’

Saying that they are the current Mau Mau in Kenya, the youth in Nairobi are demanding that the government build a Dedan Kimathi museum, and a monument in Kamiti maximum security prison to replace the notorious jail where Kimathi is believed to have been buried in an unmarked grave.

‘The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.’-- Che Guevara

Abahlali baseMjondolo of the Western Cape Rejects DA Hypocrisy and Stands Firm for Press Freedom

As a movement we have become used to the blatant hypocrisy of the DA over the years.

Mo Ibrahim recently announced he is in a joint venture bid with the government of Ethiopia for Meta Abo Brewery.

If anyone doubts that Egypt is flying today on the wings of the cities of Cairo, Alexandria and Suez, they must at least acknowledge that Egypt is on fire. We saw Tunisia before. Jordan decided for an early attempt of baptism of water rather than fire. Yemen moved with Egypt.

There has been some public speculation over the past week about proposals for departmental reorganisation in the Faculty of Humanities at UCT (University of Cape Town), and the so-called ‘closing down’ of the Centre for African Studies (CAS).