Human Rights OP-ED 

Attacks on human rights activists reach crisis point globally

 Community leaders, lawyers, journalists and other human rights defenders across the world are facing unprecedented levels of persecution, intimidation and violence, warned Amnesty International today as it launched a new global campaign demanding an end to the onslaught of attacks against brave individuals standing up to injustice.   “What we are witnessing today is a full-frontal assault by governments, armed… Read More
Fidel Castro Leaders OP-ED 

SAINT FIDEL CASTRO OF AFRICA

From standing up for African liberation to fighting against western imperialism, Fidel Castro is to Africa what Saints are to the Catholic Church. For many in the west, especially the United States of America, Fidel Castro, the former President of Cuba who passed way this weekend at the tender age of 90, is a tyrant in the league of Adolf… Read More
Mandela and Castro Decision Makers Ex-Presidents Leaders 

Fidel Castro, Cuba’s longtime revolutionary leader, Friend to Africa Dead at 90

Fidel Castro, the Cuban leader, respected in many African Countries, friend to Nelson Mandela who famously proclaimed after his arrest in a failed coup attempt that history would absolve him, has died aged 90. and YES to the Chagrin of US, FIDEL CASTRO will be mourned today. Castro’s brother and the nation’s President of several years, Raul, announced his death… Read More
Nelson Mandela Ex-Presidents 

Mandela and Fidel: What is not being said

THE death of Nelson Mandela has precipitated a torrent of interpretations on his life and work, all of which present him as a disciple of pacifism and a kind of Mother Teresa of South Africa. This is an essentially incorrect, and premeditated, image, promoted to obscure the fact that after the Sharpeville massacre in 1960, the African National Congress (ANC)... Read More
Nelson and Winnie Mandela Africa Opinions 

Why Nelson Mandela never forgave ex-wife, Winnie

Nelson Mandela passed away Thursday night. John Carlin in his new book ‘Knowing Mandela,’ reveals why he never forgave the former wife who has visited his bedside. TWO weeks before Nelson Mandela’s release from prison in February 1990 I went to see his wife, Winnie, at her home in Diepkloof Extension, the posh neighbourhood of Soweto where the handful of… Read More

Joyce Banda lost elections because she took people’s goodwill for granted

William Gumede, author of Thabo Mbeki and the Battle for the Soul of the ANC Recently wrote a piece for The Guardian’s “Comment is Free” on why he thinks “ Obama has let Africa down.” Unfortunately, there is still a section of Africans who think Obama owes the continent something simply because his father was from Kenya. Yet, Obama is... Read More

Winnie left wanting in Nelson “Madiba” Mandela’s will

JOHANNESBURG – Former President Nelson Mandela has not left any money or assets to his former wife Winnie Madikizela-Mandela. Mandela’s final will and testament was released publicly today. In it Mandela detailed endowments to his children, grandchildren and great grandchildren. Executors of his estate, Deputy Chief Justice Dikgang Moseneke, Eastern Cape Judge President Themba Sangoni and Advocate George Bizos SC,... Read More

Lawsuit seeks proof of CIA meddling in Mandela’s arrest

An American student lodged a lawsuit against the CIA on Wednesday in an attempt to secure documents that purportedly show the intelligence agency was complicit in Nelson Mandela's arrest. Former president Mandela, who died last month aged 95, was detained in 1962, convicted in the Rivonia Trial and incarcerated for decades under apartheid rulers. Read More

President Jacob Zuma’s 2014 New Year message

Fellow South Africans,The year 2013 has come to an end. It has been a momentous year, filled with both successes and challenges, as we continued to work together to build a united, non-racial, non-sexist, democratic and prosperous South Africa. We will tomorrow, on 1 January, begin an important year, during which the country will celebrate 20 years of freedom and democracy... Read More

Why Nelson Mandela never forgave ex-wife, Winnie

Nelson Mandela passed away Thursday night. John Carlin in his new book ‘Knowing Mandela,’ reveals why he never forgave the former wife who has visited his bedside. TWO weeks before Nelson Mandela’s release from prison in February 1990 I went to see his wife, Winnie, at her home in Diepkloof Extension, the posh neighbourhood of Soweto where the handful of... Read More