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South Africans remember but world leaders elsewhere ignore the tenth anniversary of a massacre that rivals Sharpeville and Soweto
Strikers at Marikana, a platinum mining town in North West Province, South Africa in August 2012 When white police opened fire on black demonstrators at Sharpeville in March 1960,… Read more >
The looters continua as a toothless ANC continues to think and act like Stalin while running South Africa into the ground
GUEST WRITER OF THE MONTH – PAUL TREWHELA IN HIS mammoth new study, History of South Africa: 1902 to the Present, published by Penguin Random House… Read more >
James Chikerema is finally made a National Hero – He ignited the spirit of nationalism in Rhodesia but fell foul of Robert Mugabe and his Zanu(PF) acolytes and sycophants in Zimbabwe
James Chikerema after his High Court victory which allowed him to remain in Parliament with his supporters after leaving the UANC in 1979, seen here with Stanley Chimombe Mushonga. (Picture:… Read more >
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 >
British author calls for immediate help for a South African who dared speak truth to power and who now roams the streets of southern England homeless and hopeless
SPECIAL REPORT Katiza Cebekhulu left his home in the township of Mpumalanga in Zululand, South Africa, in 1988 go get to Johannesburg. He was escaping a life of poverty,… Read more >
White Malice – New book exposes the lies and hypocrisy of Western intelligence agencies when the white colonists left Africa
WHITE MALICE – The CIA and the decolonisation of Africa by Susan Williams (Hurst Publishers, London, pp 651. £25.00 in UK) Reviewed by Trevor Grundy Winston Churchill… Read more >
Barbara Hall MBE (1923-2022): A woman of talent and courage who had a never-ending love for Zambia
Barbara Hall MBE, doyen in the world of crossword compilers and editor of a book that helped whites in Africa understand more about the people they lived alongside but who… Read more >