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There they fell during 2011, one after the other in past-their-prime domino descent: Zine El Abidine Ben Ali from Tunis, Hosni Mubarak from Cairo,…
In these days of dire economic and environmental crisis, with political elites under attack from Athens to Washington, the establishment is desperate…
At a time South African trade unions are under fierce attack from big business for winning above-inflation wage increases through strikes and…
Will the host city for the November-December world climate summit, the COP17, clean up its act? Last Tuesday’s launch of a major…
There’s no way around it: to solve the worsening climate crisis requires we must accept both that the vast majority of fossil…
When African National Congress youth leader Julius Malema recently proposed the mining industry’s partial nationalization – and last week asked, quite legitimately,…
Two of South Africa’s greatest water warriors were not actually killed in conflict, though at the time of their deaths on June…
Judging by what transpired at last week’s global climate negotiations in the former West German capital, Bonn, it appears certain that in…
A renewed wave of development babble began flowing soon after the February launch of the World Bank’s ten-year Strategy document, “Africa‘s…
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