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If We Must Die
Book review: If We Must Die by Stanley Manong. This is a major myth buster; a massively detailed autobiography that provides one of the finest insights to date of life in the ANC’s exiled uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK) army in the crucial years following the 1976 student uprisings in South Africa.
Spin, myths and The Market
December 19, 2015
The economic crunch experienced in South Africa last week provided a clear insight into the workings of the system and the limits, within a parliamentary democracy, of “people’s power”.
Where political expediency trumps education
December 13, 2015
How better for a government facing severe criticism for it performance on the education front than to burnish its image by providing an illusion of improved school performance?
SA’s Cosatu: neither dead nor dying, but deeply troubled
December 8, 2015
As South Africa's major labour federation, Cosatu, goes into its fourth decade, it does so carrying all the damaging detritus of the past that the leadership continues not to confront.
Terry Bell Writes 
December 21, 2015
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