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Ruth Weiss: German Jewish journalist and novelist honoured in Courtroom 600 Nuremberg where the Nazi war-crime trials started in 1945
Ruth Weiss: She writes about the greatness and baseness inside us all. By TREVOR GRUNDY On July 5, 2022, Dr Frederick Lubich of the Old Dominion University… Read more >
Ndabaningi Sithole: Zimbabwe’s forgotten intellectual and leader
Jubilant supporters welcome Rev.Ndaabaningi Sithole back to the land of his birth in 1992 (Picture: Trevor Grundy) Guest writer of the month Tinashe Mushakavanhu, University of Oxford (Reproduced… Read more >
Winston Churchill: New book emphasises the dark side of Britain’s best-loved war-time leader
‘Winston Churchill – His Times, His Crimes’ by Tariq Ali (Verso, 419 pp. £25.00) Trevor Grundy reviews a book that could open the eyes of a new generation of… Read more >
John Thomson (1931-2022): New Zealand journalist who never stopped loving Tanzania
John Thomson, a dedicated journalist who loved Tanzania and who did his utmost to explain Julius Nyerere’s socialist socialist policies to the outside world (Picture courtesy of Meera Webster, John… Read more >