What Progress Looks Like
If one one of the more lurid websites on the Right predicted that Africans would begin throwing feces at things they didn't like, I'd be disgusted. After all, reckless rhetor...
A BBC Graph well before the all time high.
Events in the post-Mandela Rainbow Nation playing out as expected.
Officials attending the National Firearms Summit in Parliament on Tuesday heard that 47 pe...
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I had totally forgotten this page from Volume One of Australian Prime Minister Sir Robert Menzies' memoirs, into which I dipped afresh today. It's a 1961 cartoon from,...
Nelson Mandela will be buried on Sunday December 15. South Africa will, at least until then, have the world’s attention. What, if anything, does the history of that country have to tell us about the pr...
"Apartheid is an affront to human rights and human dignity. Normal and friendly relations cannot exist between the United States and South Africa until it becomes a dead policy. Americans are of one m...
In the Sydney Morning Herald, the South African-born 2003 Nobel laureate in literature J.M. Coetzee writes:
Nelson Mandela has died after a long life – long yet lamentably truncated in that he spent 27...
With the death of Nelson Mandela, a tidal wave of schmaltz and sentimental dreck is about to descend on our already beleaguered Republic. Part of this will include the inevitable Conservativism Inc....
In August, I wrote about 34 black South African strikers who got shot to death by black South African police, to the accompaniment of none of the international condemnation that accompanied the “Sharpe...
Re: James Fulford's blog item: Black Police Kill Black Miners "In A Spectacle That Reminded Many South Africans Of The Apartheid Past" And Everyone Else Of ALL THE OTHER GOVERNMENTS IN AFRICAFrom: An A...
Here's Time's take on some black South African strikers who got shot by black South Africa police:
In South Africa, Police Fire on Striking Mineworkers
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The horrific images and th...
