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Irrationality & the vultures
As more people are thrown onto the scrapheap of unemployment, driven to desperation, the vultures gather to pick their bones.
Hairybacks, ‘souties’ & an accidental ANC member
July 13, 2020
Available online at Daily Maverick: https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2020-07-13-reflections-of-a-wayward-boy-hairybacks-soutpiele-and-an-accidental-member-of-the-anc/amp/ Reflections of a wayward boy (4) My life changed during that single day in early 1961 when I returned to the Germiston Advocate newspaper office after attending a Group Areas Board hearing and making my first visit to a township where I met and interviewed people who were about […]
Fight for a “peoples’ vaccine”
July 12, 2020
With the Trump administration playing ball with the pharmaceutical companies, democrats everywhere should rally to fight for the "peoples' vaccine" demanded in May by 140 experts and world leaders, including President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa.
Three clarion calls to action
July 12, 2020
Time to fight for free, universal access to any Covid-19 vaccine or treatment and, in the longer term, free, universal healthcare.
ECD ruling exacerbates inequality
July 7, 2020
The Pretoria high court ruling that childcare centres, closed since March, may open immediately, but subject to safety requirements will not affect the overwhelming majority of such centres. Instead, it will exacerbate existing inequalities.
Terry Bell Writes 
July 27, 2020
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