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Women: Outspoken activists or passive spectators of their oppression?
Written by Sam Mathe
Tuesday, 16 August 2011 15:36
Where is the voice of the majority of South African women in the country’s political and social discourse? In particular, where is the voice of the fairer sex within the so-called broad church that is the ruling party? It is a truism that the leadership of the tripartite alliance – Cosatu and the SACP in particular – is always vocal on various political issues. It is also a well-known fact the ANC Youth League’s outspokenness on these issues is legendary. But seldom does one hear a voice – let alone of dissent – from the ANC Women’s League.
A classic example of the ANC Women’s League’s silence when it was expected to be vocal on the issue was when Julius Malema expressed flagrantly sexist statements at President Zuma’s rape accuser – in effect insulting all women when he said all those demeaning words about breakfast and taxi money. In an address at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology last year, he told students, “When a woman didn’t enjoy it, she leaves early in the morning. Those who had a nice time will wait until the sun comes out, request breakfast and ask for taxi money.”
Thomas Sankara: A selfless and incorruptible leader with a proud legacy
Written by Sam Mathe
Wednesday, 06 July 2011 17:58
With all these disturbing newspaper reports regarding the self-enrichment of government ministers relentlessly pursuing luxurious lifestyles at the expense of the tax-paying electorate, one is reminded of Captain Thomas Sankara, a young officer who took over the government of the then Upper Volta, West Africa, in 1983 and set in motion a new ethos of responsible and accountable spending of public funds by government officials.
Immediately after taking over the reins, Sankara auctioned off the German luxury vehicles that made up the fleet of the ruling elite. He embarrassed and angered these wabenzi – Swahili for ‘the people of the Mercedes Benz’ – by replacing their flashy wheels with the modest Renault 5, at the time the cheapest model in the country. Back in present-day South Africa, government ministers continue to justify their extravagant spending on expensive cars – fitted with all the luxurious accessories – by quoting the ministerial handbook.
From Table Bay to Sharpeville - The spirit of Robert Sobukwe
Written by Dr Magaugau
Tuesday, 05 July 2011 12:36
“I say it once more Benjie: Nobody is going to be ‘taught a lesson’ by anybody. The days for that type of mentality are over: between nations and between individuals. Our own children demand that we justify our ‘right’ to teach them a lesson.” Robert Sobukwe – in a 1968 letter to Rand Daily Mail journalist and his biographer, Benjamin Pogrund, while he was incarcerated on Robben Island.
Two of South Africa’s watershed historic dates are April 6 1652 and March 21 1960. Of course, the first one relates to the European colonisation of the southern tip of the Mother Continent when the Dutch arrived on Table Bay under the command of Jan van Riebeeck and established a refreshment station – ‘the tavern of the seas’ – for European ships that were trading with the East.
The fated encounter between the Dutch settlers and the first Africans to inhabit this part of the country – the hunter-gatherer and nomadic societies of the Khoi and the San – was to shape South Africa’s race relations and government policies for the next 359 years.
Dr Magaugau's Corner - Lest we forget
Written by Dr Magaugau
Tuesday, 31 May 2011 15:59
“We have known harassing work, exacted in exchange for salaries which did not permit us to eat enough to drive away hunger, to clothe ourselves, or to house ourselves decently, or to raise our children as creatures dear to us.” – Patrice Lumumba
Patrice Emery Lumumba (2 July 1925 – 17 January 1961)
January 2011 marks the 50th anniversary of the brutal assassination of Patrice Lumumba, the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s first democratically elected prime minister and one of Africa’s revered martyrs, at the hands of Belgian and US imperialist agents orchestrated by the American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).