Posts Tagged President Jacob Zuma
The Women’s Charter, Women’s Day and Yom Kippur
Posted by Zackie Achmat in Equality and LGBTI politics, South African politics on 11/08/2010
Adopted more than a year before the Freedom Charter, the Women’s Charter (copied below) was never popularised in our movement for freedom and equality in the same way as the Freedom Charter. Apart from some of its language, the Women’s Charter remains as relevant as a document of struggle today as the day of its [...]
The ANC Turns on the Press (Again) — Richard Pithouse
Posted by Zackie Achmat in South African politics on 04/08/2010
ANC members must take this critique seriously. Zackie Achmat The ANC Turns on the Press (Again) By Richard Pithouse The African National Congress, perhaps buoyed by a renewed sense of public confidence in the wake of the World Cup, is, again, moving against one of our fundamental democratic freedoms. Amidst a new flurry of indignation, [...]
Breaking news: Journalist Mzilikazi wa Afrika arrested – Resist this onslaught against our freedom
Posted by Zackie Achmat in COSATU and labour movement, South African politics on 04/08/2010
Mzilikazi wa Afrika, the Sunday Times reporter who wrote the article on police chief General Bheki Cele’s irregular contract of R500 million last Sunday has been arrested. (See reports below) This arrest is an assault on the Constitution and every person in South Africa including those who arrested him, for they too can suffer the [...]
Corruption and the different faces of the ANC
Posted by Zackie Achmat in Political parties, South African politics on 01/08/2010
Deputy-President Kgalema Motlanthe made a clarion call to ANC branch leaders in Gauteng saying that “the fight against crime and corruption must first start within the ANC”. It is the duty of every decent ANC member to take up this call. The ANC National Executive Committee has to set the example. Two major corruption scandals [...]
Join Fast for School Libraries — Why Cosatu supports Equal Education
Posted by Zackie Achmat in Equal Education, South African politics on 25/07/2010
On Thursday 29th July 2010 at 18:00 thousands of learners, students, teachers, parents, activists and community members will join a fast called by Equal Education in its campaign for school libraries. We are fasting because class and race apartheid still exists in our education system. We are fasting because our children are doomed to a [...]
SA homophobia at UN body & Role in detention Zimbabwean researcher
Posted by Zackie Achmat in Africa, Politics, Economics and History, crime and safety on 28/06/2010
Homophobia must be condemned wherever it occurs and it cannot be divorced from broader struggles for democracy. Two posts are carried below. Both involve South African public representatives doing international work relating to human rights. The first is a response by a range of organisations to the homophobia by Jerry Matjila South Africa’s representative to [...]
Matuba Mahlatjie: President Zuma’s Malawi statement a veiled insult to the Constitution
Posted by Zackie Achmat in Uncategorized on 29/05/2010
We have all (I believe correctly welcomed) President Jacob Zuma’s statement on Malawi. Matuba Mahlatjie raises a series of important questions that should temper our approach even as we believe that the criticism of another SADC member is important. For instance, the President did not say anything about offering people on our Continent asylum who [...]
Of language and politics The language of disrespect has descended from the highest levels of leadership
Posted by Zackie Achmat in Uncategorized on 15/03/2010
Julius Malema is guilty of hate speech. Exactly one year ago — I wrote this article for the Mail and Guardian. I want to write a companion to it of white race hate speech on websites such as politicweb or comments on the M&G, The Times and other sites. Of language and politics The [...]
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