Liongold: Sunlight and Shadows in the Era of Apartheid - A poignant memoir of life in South Africa during the height of the apartheid regime -- a beautiful place, at an ugly time in its history.
The Real Barack Obama (Free subscription) | yesterday
The RBO radar sounded an alert this morning while posting Trevor Loudon’s most recent research piece in which he mentioned the Chicago Committee in Solidarity with Southern Africa. Loudon connected Barack Obama’s Hawaiian communist mentor, Frank Marshall Davis, with Davis’s Chicago communist fellow traveler, Earl Durham, as members of CCSSA. Loudon wrote that, in 1989, [...]
War in Context (Free subscription) | yesterday
At The National, Tony Karon wrote: The former US president Jimmy Carter set off a firestorm in 2006 when he said that Israel would have to choose between maintaining an apartheid occupation of the West Bank and Gaza and a two-state peace agreement with the Palestinians. That Mr Carter brokered Israel’s most important peace treaty with [...]
Sister Aishah's Islamic Journey (Free subscription) | yesterday
Palestinians and Israeli dissenters are getting together to fight Israel's plan to build another section of the separation wall in the occupied West Bank. According to environmentalists, the wall... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Operation Black Vote (Free subscription) | yesterday
The issue of caste is often unrecognised, but discrimination and bad treatment towards Dalits is a serious problem, says Gagan Dulai The caste system has been practiced in south Asia for over 3,000 years. It is widely believed that the practice began when Aryan tribes from Iran invaded South Asia between 2,000 BCE and 1500 [...]
Schools Matter (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
Wake County, NC is ground zero for the war against school diversity in America. If Raleigh's most widely-heralded and successful economic integration plans can be stopped by right-wing racists in Wake County, it will constitute a huge step forward for the Team Apartheid. From the News-Observer : RALEIGH Conservative businessmen Bob Luddy and Art Pope were the largest contributors in fall's Wake County...
Tiny Mix Tapes (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
S. Piliso & His Super Seven : "Kuya Hanjwa" by Chocolate Grinder on 02-09-2010 From Strut: With Next Stop Soweto , Strut trace some of the amazing music that often only appeared on short run 45s at the time, including tracks by smaller and lesser known bands that plied their trade under apartheid during the years before the tumultuous Soweto uprising of 1976. Featuring music recorded...
Schools Matter (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
My first year of teaching was 1971 in Sandersville, Georgia, during the second year of school integration in that part of the apartheid South. Those white children whose parents could afford it had been placed in the private academies that had sprung up around the region like mushrooms in a cow pasture after a spring rain. Now almost 40 years later, we can now see the return of segregation and apartheid,...
New Zealand Herald (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
The only six-coloured flag in the world, South Africa's design aimed to pull together all strands of class and race, and colourfully mark a new post-apartheid era.But it was only ever intended to be a stop-gap flag, and was a...
Poverty News Blog (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
From IRIN, a human rights organization sheds light on the treatment of foreigners in South Africa. Foreign nationals are being attacked with "impunity" in South Africa, a leading human rights organization charged as the latest service delivery protests turned violent and several hundred residents turned their anger on Ethiopian refugees living in Siyathemba township, about 80km east of Johannesburg....
Otto's Random Thoughts (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
Today I taught Politics of the Middle East. This is the second time I have taught the class. The first time it was quite thrilling to be able to criticize Israel without being viciously attacked as happens to anybody in the US who openly holds a political position hostile to Zionism. But, here my views are considered part of the mainstream international opinion. Of course most people think that Israeli...
Bush Radio 89.5 fm Newsroom (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
By Khanyisa Tabata 09 February 2010 The African National Congress now says former president Nelson Mandela will not be attending the celebration of his release 20 years ago at Paarl’s Drakenstein Correctional Centre on Thursday. The party’s initial statement on the celebrations said that Madiba would be there. But spokesperson Jackson Mthembu now says the only activity that Mandela will...
Ismailimail (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
While Murad Velshi lived in apartheid-era South Africa, the laws always seemed to be against him. Indians like him were forced to live in ghettos. They were not allowed to eat in restaurants. They were not allowed to use public washrooms. They couldn’t even go to movies. By the time the Velshis left for Canada in [...]
Dave Camp on Film (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
I hadn’t been convinced that the 1995 Rugby World Cup was the best story for a crew of this pedigree to tell, but though the sports clichés roll on thick and fast in the final half hour, Clint Eastwood's direction is steady enough to control the gentle drift into conventionality. There’s an elegance in the way he balances the broader context of post-Apartheid South Africa with the...
Pan-African News Wire (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
Former South African President Nelson Mandela and former President Fidel Castro in Cuba during 1991. Mandela praised the role of Cuba in the liberation of southern Africa. Originally uploaded by Pan-African News Wire File Photos Profile of a statesman Tue, 09 Feb 2010 08:26 Nelson Mandela walked out of an apartheid prison 20 years ago on Thursday, beginning South Africa's march to democracy and reconciliation...
M80s Soundtrack for an 80s Generation (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
Peter Gabriel is Peter Gabriel's third album. The album contains two of Gabriel's most famous songs, the U.K. Top 10 hit 'Games Without Frontiers' and the political song 'Biko', about the late anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko. The album was remastered, along with most of Gabriel's catalog, in 2002. This album is often referred to as Melt due to its cover photograph by Storm Thorgerson of Hipgnosis....
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moviesrdownthe | 01/07/2010
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babaraman | 12/19/2009
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I watched this movie here: http://tinyurl.com/y9vf2bd
This movie is good, it has an awesome ending! If you want spoilers just ask me =)
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eisenhower | 12/12/2009
WANT TO DOWNLOAD INVICTUS MOVIE LEGALLY AND IN HIGH QUALITY ! Download Invictus Movie – Click here Story : Invictus The film tells the inspiring true story of how Nelson Mandela joined forces with the captain of South Africa's rugby team to help unite their country. Newly elected President Mandela knows his nation remains racially and economically divided in the wake of apartheid. Believing he can...
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I watched it at http://leafpen.com/38890 and it was pretty good quality. but I had to do a survey first. after that it worked though, so whatever.
I watched this movie here: http://tinyurl.com/y9vf2bd
This movie is good, it has an awesome ending! If you want spoilers just ask me =)
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As far as I know there is only one legitimate place to watch it. I can’t stand those dumb surveys either but they make you do a short one then you are...
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