South Africa is abuzz with discussions relating to the issue the Protection of Information Bill and the Media Tribunal. The atmosphere generated by the debate around Media freedom and the proposed Media Tribunal has brought restlessness to some of us. The arrest of the Journalist Mzilikazi Wa Afrika did not help the situation. There has been a general unpleasantness and an outcry from Journalists, Organizations of Civil Society, including SANEF...

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On Saturday 07 August 2010, 18 year old Mapula Makabole, a Grade 12 Learner at Derrick Kobe High School in Lebowakgomo left home to visit a friend in her neighbourhood. She did not return home. The following day her father was called to identify her lifeless body at the mortuary. We later came to know that she had visited a male friend, who allegedly strangled her. The male friend then called another male friend who has a car. They took Mapula’s body and dumped it in the forest...

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Just a glance at this topic suggests there is something the matter with our consciousness even after the attainment of independence from our former colonial rulers quite a while back. It further asserts that we are oppressed and that we should strive for the liberation of our minds. These must be troubling notions, considering that we have freed ourselves from colonial rule many decades ago on average, in some cases after waging bitter struggles with heavy casualties. Most of us would wish that such notions of us being oppressed were political heresy propagated by lunatics in our ranks...

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Can you picture a whole community coming together in a meeting and taking a conscious decision to burn some of their schools, prevent all their children from going to school indefinitely and then unashamedly announcing that they are using the education of their children as a weapon in their dispute with the government? That is exactly what the villagers...

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Without characterising the days or commenting on how they were, we congratulate you, Sir, on completing 365 days as Head of State. We have noted with the appointment of Commissioners to the National Planning Commission, and we wish them well in the execution of their duties and Mandate...

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