BLACK WEDNESDAY: NEARLY 50 YEARS OF TRYING TO BURY A SPIRIT THAT REFUSES TO DIE
On 19 October 1977, the apartheid regime did what it does best when it is afraid: it banned. On that day, notoriously known as Black Wednesday, Minister of Justice Jimmy Kruger banned 18 Black Consciousness organisations in one sweep. SASO, SASM, BPC, BCP, BWP, and 13 others – all gone with one signature. Two newspapers, […]
STATESCRAFT IN THE COMPLEX DOMAIN
We must attempt to situate the next two weeks, in which elections will occur in Brazil on October 24, Israel on October 27, and the United States on November 3, in the higher-order domain within which they are actually occurring. Pope Leo XIV’s gathering in Assisi October 25-27, in pursuit of a dialogue for peace, […]
19 OCTOBER 1977: THE BANNING OF THE BCM ORGANISATIONS AND NEWSPAPERS
FORTY-NINE years ago today, on 19 October 1977, the apartheid regime decided the ban some 18 organizations aligned with the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM) and two major newspapers. On the spur of the moment, that day was dubbed “Black Wednesday”. Though it wasn’t easy to stop the momentum, the BCM never really accepted the negative […]
CHINA’S PRAGMATISM OVER IDEOLOGY OFFERS GREAT LESSONS FOR DEVELOPING NATIONS
China’s rise from the ashes of the cultural revolution to the second biggest economy in the world in just under five decades is nothing short of a miracle in the history of transformation of political economies. It had to take the courage of one Deng Xiaoping, to convince the Chinese Communist Party to abandon its […]