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Put the ‘devastating’ blame where it belongs
First produced in City Press, South Africa Economic recovery. Economic growth. That is what is now being promoted in the wake of the devastation caused by the responses to the Covid-19 pandemic. But what is really required in South Africa is social reconstruction to try to remedy the extraordinary damage done to millions of mainly […]
Reflections of a wayward boy 10
October 31, 2020
Also available on: https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2020-10-29-reflections-of-a-wayward-boy-how-i-tumbled-a-notorious-apartheid-police-spy/ When the security branch (SB) swooped in July 3,1964, no newspaper had a picture of me. I had seen to that as a precaution should I ever be on the run. Yet, as I soon discovered, the police had veritable photo albums of everyone. However, the Rand Daily Mail did have […]
SA Govt’s historic millstone
October 31, 2020
Government claims to have united labour, business and organised civil society behind its “new plan” to reverse economic decline has triggered considerable — and justified — cynicism in much of the trade union movement. Civil service unions, denied their agreed to and budgeted for pay rises, are especially aggrieved. “More empty words” is a […]
Ending up ‘wanted by both the Communist Party & the police’
October 20, 2020
(Also available at: https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2020-10-13-reflections-of-a-wayward-boy-wanted-by-the-police-and-the-communists/) The Congress leadership of the revolution had been arrested at Rivonia and was in jail, awaiting trial, a fate that was also to befall the members of the Liberal/Socialist League/African Resistance Movement. But our officially unsanctioned groups were still free, and we were determined that militant resistance, especially the sabotage of […]
Would-be revolutionaries & wasps in the Magaliesberg
October 20, 2020
(Also available on: https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2020-10-01-reflections-of-a-wayward-boy-a-revolutionary-magaliesberg-route-march-punctuated-by-wasp-stings/) The social milieau from which I emerged into anti-apartheid politics was rather different from that of my comrades in the Congress of Democrats (COD). Even those who also came from Germiston came effectively — and literally — from the other sides of the tracks in that mining and railway hub. And […]
Don’t blame the virus
October 20, 2020
(A version of this appeared in City Press on October 20, 2020) Economic recovery. Economic growth. That is what is now being promoted in the wake of the devastation caused by the responses to the Covid-19 pandemic. But what is really required in South Africa is social reconstruction to try to remedy the extraordinary damage […]
Terry Bell Writes 
October 31, 2020
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