Governance

At that moment when we profess erudition and utmost comprehension, our ignorance and mental darkness becomes vividly obvious. Of that which we should know we have neglected, and of that which we claim to know we know nothing of.

The meeting was to have taken place between King Mswati III, who has ruled Swaziland almost single-handedly for 30 years, and the so-called G15 group, made up of representatives from Swaziland’s civil society, trade unions and political parties SWADEPA, PUDEMO, Sibahle Sinje and the NNLC.

A recent Globe and Mail article (reprinted on Rabble.ca) by Gerald Caplan detailing Canadian relations with Uganda made be mad. Why?

I am a child of Biafra. I was born on the eve of that avoidable and internecine civil war. My father fought in that war on the side of Biafra. I have sat through many hours of interview to get a glimpse from his personal experience, of what happened.

Once upon a time, anti-colonial movements were fighting for human rights against oppression and injustice. Representatives of these agencies claimed a moral high ground.

According to a statement issued by the Presidency yesterday, the theme of this year’s Day of Reconciliation celebrations will be: “Bridging the Divide: Building a Common South African Nationhood towards a National Developmental State.” It goes on to claim the day “promotes and is entrenched on co

PARADISE LOST

The Black First Land First (BLF) movement shares the grief of the Zimbabwean people on the loss of their beloved son and African revolutionary, Professor Sam Moyo. We learn with heavy hearts from our occupied country, South Africa, that Prof Moyo has passed on from this world.

The passing on of Professor Sam Moyo of the African Institute for Agrarian Studies (AIAS) touched me wholeheartedly because he plucked me from a navy undergraduate class of the Geography Department at the University of Zimbabwe in 1993.