Apartheid was a violent system. It wasn't just the overt violence of the militarisation of the townships, the assassinations, the arbitrary arrests and torture – it was the daily attacks on the humanity, freedom of movement, rights to association, expression, education and normal family life from the system that shaped everyday Black existence. Systems, in [...]
Archive for May, 2006
israel and palestine: the new apartheid
30 May, 2006forever young – bob now and then
25 May, 2006The man turned 65 yesterday. That's when normal people are retiring, or when people normally retire. But Dylan is neither normal, nor does he show any signs of retiring. "You should be able to go on for as long as you want to go on", he once told an interviewer. Bob clearly wants [...]
touching down on word press!
22 May, 2006I've ported over my blog from Blogger. That was good platform from which to begin, and I'm grateful to them. But I got to the point where I was being put off by the appearance of the blog! I wanted a template that looked clean, clear, inviting and contemporary. That's the problem with the blogoshpere [...]
