Dale T. McKinley - For some of our leaders, the idea, not to mention practice, of a principled consistency linking their personal and their public lives appears to be as foreign as intelligent debate is to the ANC Youth League.
Shoot First, Ask Questions Later: What Can We Learn From Nigeria?
Glenn Ashton - Even before 'mainstreaming' the shoot to kill ethos by police leadership, the South African police consistently managed to kill around 500 people per year and injure and maim many more.
Michael Schwartz - Even before the 9/11 attacks, America's energy task force headed by Vice President Cheney was tentatively allocating oil fields in a future pacified Iraq to key international oil companies.
The NERSA Hearings: Time for an Autonomous Energy Movement
Saliem Fakir - NERSA was merely going through the motions when it conducted the electricity tariff hike public hearings. Ultimately, Treasury and the cabinet decide what can be afforded or imposed on the public.
Eskom: Time to Support Appropriation from Below
Richard Pithouse - Few would disagree that Eskom, an institution that should serve the public good, has been captured by an avaricious elite and turned into a vampiric excrescence on our society.
Deposed Honduran President Manuel Zelaya to Leave Brazilian Embassy
Emile Schepers - A deal between Honduras' dubiously elected new president and the president of the Dominican Republic will allow deposed President Manuel Zelaya to leave the Brazilian embassy for exile.
Eskom is the Problem, Not the Solution
Glenn Ashton - Given our recent history with power supply shortages, Eskom appears to be the natural place to seek solutions. Instead, Eskom has shown itself unable to devise creative solutions.
South Africa and the New World Order - South Africa is using its growing international status to cultivate its esteem amongst the world's ruling countries. But none of this is about South Africa being a force for good in the world.
Life in a Concrete Cube: Albie Sachs Recalls Apartheid - Former constitutional court judge and anti-apartheid activist, Albie Sachs, talks about being detained in solitary confinement over an extended period of time by apartheid era security police. He describes his psychological torture at the hands of security police during the 1960's as the worst moments of his life, even worse than losing his arm two decades later in a bomb blast orchestrated by the apartheid regime's security agents.
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