[The Injustice Blog] A disgraceful end for South Africa’s Jacob Zuma

As a surprise to everyone, and yet a surprise to no one, Jacob Zuma, the embattled president of the Republic of South Africa, publicly announced his resignation on the 14th of February 2018, marking a tenure that was marred by over 660 separate corruption allegations. For South Africans this was the perfect Valentine’s Day present,... Read More

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December 9, 2016

South Africa, you’re next: Will change come to Mandela’s country?

In a time when the political establishment all over the world is suffering, with voters from America to Gambia opting for change, there are few countries in need of a new direction the way South Africa is. The promise of the Rainbow Nation after the end of apartheid in 1994 has largely been wasted, replaced... Read More

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September 6, 2016

Nelson Mandela on fighting white supremacy, apartheid in his first ever TV interview (WATCH)

Former South African President, Nelson Mandela was well known for his anti-apartheid revolution in South Africa which led to his imprisonment for 27 years. Mandela lent his voice against the supremacy of whites over black in South Africa at the time. What is believed to be Mandela’s first TV interview in 1956 with a Dutch... Read More

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November 6, 2014

Terrible: Gunmen shoot South African rights activist

by Akan Ido Andile Lili, a South African activist has been shot multiple times by gunmen in Khayelitsha, an informal settlement in Cape Town. The 39-year-old leader of Ses’khona People’s Rights Movement (SPRM) was reportedly shot four times yesterday evening while getting into his car. “He was shot in front of his house while he was... Read More

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October 8, 2014

“We want our money back” || South African youths are unhappy with Nicki Minaj

by Akan Ido The youth wing of South Africa’s ‘African National Congress’ is at loggerheads with American singer, Nicki Minaj. The ANC Youth League (ANCYL) in Tshwane has written to Minaj’s management, asking for a refund of the R10 million(N147,170,054) deposit she received from the City of Tshwane to perform at the TribeOne Dinokeng Festival in Cullinan. The... Read More

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May 27, 2014

Reno Omokri: From battleground to common ground

by Reno Omokri The All Progressives Congress (APC) is a party founded on this premise. Those who are enemies of president and the PDP gathered together to form a party whose foundation is their common enemy. They share no ideological connection, neither are they friends In the season that we are in, I think it... Read More

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December 20, 2013

Opinion: Why the West loved Mandela but hate Mugabe

by Stephen Gowans Mandela’s “great accomplishment” was to protect the South African economy as a sphere for exploitation by the white property-owning minority and Western corporate and financial elite from the rank-and-file demands for economic justice of the movement he led. In the wake of Nelson Mandela’s death, hosannas continue to be sung to the... Read More

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December 18, 2013

Paul Kagame: Let’s not forget, Mandela was a politician

by Paul Kegame To point out that Nelson Mandela was, above all, a politician is not to diminish his remarkable legacy, but rather to remind the world that politicians are capable of remarkable things. Few were less comfortable with the prospect of sainthood than Nelson Mandela himself. “One issue that deeply worried me in prison,”... Read More

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December 12, 2013

Dele Agekameh: Mandela, the litmus test of greatness

by Dele Agekameh Mandela said that he had learned that when you had the moral high ground, it was better to sit down, talk to people and persuade them of the correctness of your cause. “If you have an objective in life, then you want to concentrate on that and not engage in infighting with... Read More

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December 11, 2013

Opinion: Sleep well, Madiba

by Kayode Oladehin Into prison went Nelson and out came Mandela. But the story might have been different, Nelson Mandela once said that he was glad he was caught, he said as head of the military wing of the ANC they had decided to scale up their activities by attacking schools and hospitals. Had that... Read More

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December 10, 2013

Why Pres. Jacob Zuma was booed at Mandela’s memorial service

by Oke Efagene South African President, Jacob Zuma faced a major public humiliation earlier today, during the memorial service of the late anti-apartheid legend, Nelson Mandela, as the crowd booed and jeered at him. The embarrassing outburst comes barely 6 months before the next national elections, and in the presence of leaders and VIP guests... Read More

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December 7, 2013

Mandela was a TERRORIST – Former US Vice-President, Dick Cheney insists

In 1986, Nelson Mandela — the former president of South Africa who died Thursday at the age of 95 — was serving the 23rd year of what would ultimately be a 27-year prison sentence. The Western world was finally acknowledging the true horrors of Apartheid, a system of racial segregation that denied basic rights to... Read More

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March 9, 2013

Opinion: How witches underdeveloped Nigeria

by Emeka Nobis Ours is a nation of blamers. And the bulk of the blame falls on the witches and wizards and their father the Devil. Have you ever seen a home video where a wife catches the husband in bed with another woman in the throes of sexual passion and the man’s instant reply... Read More

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