Jane Duncan - The media has rightfully mobilised massive public support against the threat of censorship, including and especially from grassroots activists all too familiar with state repression. But the question is: when will the media start exposing the repression of grassroots activists?
What We Should Really be Learning from China and India
Saliem Fakir - The lesson from China is less about the merits of 'political discipline', which Zuma so admired, but really about the structure and ownership of key assets and levers within the economy.
Let's Get Serious about Achieving Economic Equity
Ebrahim-Khalil Hassen - Capitalism reproduces inequality in South Africa, despite economic growth, because opportunities for participating in the market are limited not just by race, but by the structure of the market.
Two Minutes to Midnight? Cutting Through the Media's Bogus Bomb-Iran Debate
Tony Karon - America's march to an unprovoked and disastrous war in Iraq began in the media. Now, a similarly flawed media conversation about an American invasion of Iran is gaining momentum.
We Need a Properly Democratic Defence of Democracy
Richard Pithouse - The fact that liberal democratic principles have been inscribed on our statute books since 1994 doesn't mean that we all magically became democrats when Nelson Mandela took the oath of office.
30 Years of the Southern African Development Community: What's to Celebrate?
Michelle Pressend - In the SADC, regional civil society remains complacent, disempowered and unorganised, while governments continue to make policies that only benefit the elites and ruling classes.
Public Service Strike: Beyond Cowboy Bargaining
Ebrahim-Khalil Hassen - Government has argued that it has no additional funds to increase both salaries and employment at the same time. But increasing employment in the public service is a crucial target.
We Have a Way to Go to Achieve Justice for All - It has long been the case that not all are equal before the law. The justice system inevitably provides greater benefits to those with the means to both access and exploit it.
Withdrawal or Enduring Presence? US Military Continues to Invest Hundreds of Millions in Iraq Bases - In his Oval Office address Tuesday night, President Obama said the US had closed or transferred hundreds of bases to the Iraqis. But many US bases remain in Iraq, as well as the massive US embassy in Baghdad, the size of eighty football fields, reports Democracy Now, as it features a report on the reality of US bases in Iraq.
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