One of the Cuban Five has urged South Africans to keep the revolutionary legacy of the people who have fought for the democracy of the country alive.
Gerardo Hernandez is one of the Cuban Five members who visited the Free … Read the rest
Tag: revolution
Sparks backtracks furiously
Allister Sparks, notorious Boerhater, has apologised and blamed “senility” for his comments on Hendrik Verwoerd, in a bid not to push away more black DA voters.
Speaking at the DA congress in Port Elizabeth, he named apartheid architect Hendrik Verwoerd … Read the rest
‘Our Rivonia trial lit the flame of revolution’: Denis Goldberg
Three silver-haired men sat together and recalled a court case 50 years ago that rocketed their friend and fellow freedom fighter to fame. To one man in the group that friend is simply “Nel.”
To the rest of … Read the rest
When the Mandela machine stops, what monstrous reality will return?
by Dan Roodt
Last night I woke up, checked my Twitter and, sure enough, there was a Beeld journalist tweeting at one or two in the morning that nothing was happening outside Mandela’s hospital in Pretoria, except the noise of … Read the rest
‘If you want revolution, stop this party’
While Julius Malema may have little power left politically, he certainly wielded his weight at the MTN South African Music Awards (Samas) this weekend.
The disgraced former leader of the ANC Youth League made sure that South Africa’s current favourite … Read the rest
Mines getting nervous as the revolution gains momentum
By Mike Smith
Bobby Godsell, the former Anglo American boss, Eskom boss and friend of Cyril Ramaphosa, the ANC’s chief negotiator at Codesa, said that the deaths at the Marikana mine was “outrageous”.
“In an apartheid South Africa with no … Read the rest
The ANC’s second revolution (okay, ‘transition’) against whites
by Dan Roodt
South Africa, like Cuba, is the last outpost of communism. Elsewhere in the world, experiments in collective farming and nationalisation have been abandoned as the grim mistakes of nineteenth-century radicalism, issuing forth from the bearded Karl Marx, … Read the rest
Second revolution against whites must come, says Zuma
Johannesburg – The ANC’s second transition is necessary to overcome the compromises it made in the fight for democracy, President Jacob Zuma said on Tuesday.
“One of the causes of the slow pace to economic freedom is that ahead of … Read the rest