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Hairybacks, ‘souties’ & an accidental ANC member
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.
Chaos reigns in the pre-school space
June 30, 2020
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 […]
Terry Bell Writes 
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