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Into exile — by jet to London

January 19, 2021

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(Available on Daily Maverick at https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2021-01-17-reflections-of-a-wayward-boy-into-exile-and-the-streets-of-london/)When, following further arrests in South Africa in 1965, I decided to go into exile, I had no intention of going any further than Zambia or Tanzania. Naïvely, I saw myself joining the ANC army in exile and returning within five years as apartheid crumbled. Instead, I was ordered out […]

A season of discontent looms

January 19, 2021

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(First published on the Fin24 website) With justification, government ministers continue to praise nurses and other “frontline workers” fighting the battle against Covid-19.  Yet, at the same time, they refuse to pay a wage rise agreed three years ago with unions representing these same workers and others in the health, education and other sectors. In […]