Learning from South Africa
Savera Kalideen and Haidar Eid, The Electronic Intifada, 2 October 2008


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South Africa's Mbeki agrees to resign

2 hours, 23 minutes ago

By Phakamisa Ndzamela

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African President Thabo Mbeki has accepted the ruling African National Congress's request to resign, his office said on Saturday.

The ANC's decision to remove Mbeki, who was favored by investors for his pro-business policies, came after ( Read more... )

CIA behind Scorpions, Aids: expert

August 12 2008 at 03:37PM

British intelligence organisation MI5 and the United States' Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) are the masters of South Africa's elite crime fighting unit, the Scorpions, a public hearing into their dissolution heard in Durban on Tuesday.

Sam Kikine, the head of the International ( Read more... )

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Last update - 05:40 25/07/2008

By Amira Hass

NEW YORK - Right at the door, before extending his one hand (the left) in greeting, Albie Sachs sternly informs me that he has no more than one hour for the interview. That's understandable: The man is 73, a justice on his country's highest court, he has authored four ( Read more... )

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Last update - 09:40 12/07/2008

Twilight Zone

By Gideon Levy

I thought they would feel right at home in the alleys of Balata refugee camp, the Casbah and the Hawara checkpoint. But they said there is no comparison: for them the Israeli occupation regime is worse than anything they knew under apartheid. This week, 21 human ( Read more... )

By Donald Macintyre in Hebron

Friday, 11 July 2008

Veterans of the anti-apartheid struggle said last night that the restrictions endured by Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied territories was in some respects worse than that imposed on the black majority under white rule in South Africa.

Members of a 23-strong human-rights team of prominent South ( Read more... )

We, South Africans who faced the might of unjust and brutal apartheid machinery in South Africa and fought against it with all our strength, with the objective to live in a just, democratic society, refuse today to celebrate the existence of an Apartheid state in the Middle East ( Read more... )

28 April 2008

Open letter to Nadine Gordimer

In your response to our letters of concern and protest over your planned visit to Israel, to participate in a writers festival largely endorsed by the Israeli government, you brush off our criticism, citing the role of literature in "opening up the human mind" and claiming that "whatever violent, terrible ( Read more... )