The “born frees”‚ those born after 1990‚ will increasingly become more involved in violent protests and abandon democratic institutions due to continuing political and economic alienation.
Here’s the way Reuters is telling the story of South Africa’s horrific xenophobia to the world.
Anthea Jeffrey explains how Zuma is wooing that anachronism of a democracy, traditional leaders, to shore up votes for the political tests that lie ahead.
It is popular for commentators to recall the 1960s as time of carefree love, peace signs, flower children, drugs and rock & roll. But it was also the decade of Sharpeville, Vietnam and, as we were reminded yesterday, the erection of the Berlin Wall.
South Africa would consider a strategic partner for struggling state-run airline, the minister of public enterprises said on Thursday, as the government looks to cut down on spending.
Allan Greenblo was my boss at Finance Week in the early 1980s and wrote extensively then about attempts to introduce compulsory preservation of pensions. Those were heady times. Labour was starting to flex new muscles legalised through the laws enacted following the Wiehahn Commission, and it was before the UDF’s internal activism hit top gear. … Read more
By Ed Cropley JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – When Nkululeko Simelane was born on April 27, 1994, her parents did not have to think twice about her name. Her birth coincided with South Africa’s first multi-racial elections, the momentous day that ended three centuries of white domination and 46 years of formalised oppression of the black majority … Read more