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Chaos reigns in the pre-school space
Chaos and confusion continues to reign in South Africa’s early childhood development (ECD) sector, with some 2.5 million children under the age of six shut out of 32,000 ECD centres by the Covid-19 lockdown. They are now not only without any structured environment, they have missed out for three months on the one nutritious meal […]
Prospects for a new social compact
June 28, 2020
The "basics" of the early modern trade union movement were extremely democratic. Perhaps it is to these the country must turn to create a new and truly democratic social compact.
A time to try real democracy
June 27, 2020
Covid-19 is being used by politicians the world over to try to hide the fact that the system they administer was responsible for the economic crisis now exacerbated by Covid-19. Time now to try a true democratic alternative?
Reflections of a wayward boy (part 2)
June 24, 2020
Daily Maverick version available at: https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2020-06-22-reflections-of-a-wayward-boy-a-cub-reporter-in-the-dark-heart-of-south-africa/#gsc.tab=0 Pure chance, youthful arrogance and an alcoholic chief reporter who had passed out over his desk one morning in early 1961, provided the ingredients that catapulted me, a wayward school leaver and junior reporter, onto a fast track to radical anti-apartheid politics. In one day, I was set on […]
Reflections of a wayward boy (Part 1)
June 24, 2020
Also available on Daily Maverick: https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2020-06-04-a-nickname-shared-with-dumisa-ntsebeza/#gsc.tab=0 I have been called many things in my day, some of them clearly unprintable. But only once was I labelled wayward which, given the context of my life, is probably accurate. Also, so far as I am concerned, and especially from whence the label came, it was a compliment. […]
The ‘new normal’ capitalism desires
June 14, 2020
The "Great Reset Agenda for Capitalism" proposed by Klaus Schwab is another shrewd,half a loaf, bribe. Perhaps it is time to plan to take the bakery?
A key to a post-pandemic future
June 12, 2020
The roots of the present lie in the past and it is essential that we havea clear idea of such roots if we are to understand where we are now — and why. Without such knowledge we can hardly plan clearly for the future.
Compassion and capitalism do not mix
June 12, 2020
(First published on Fin24, Friday, June 12, 2020) Are we on the cusp of a new, more egalitarian and democratic post-pandemic world or are we merely transitioning to yet another change of form, but not of substance — and one that may be even nastier than what preceded it? It’s a very important question since, […]
Terry Bell Writes 
June 30, 2020
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