NOVANEWS Portending a slippery slide for South Africa’s economy Rdm.co.za Dhiru Soni Ahmed Shaikh and Anis Karodia If the South African political economy continues to be ‘privatised’ by large business, it will weaken the state […]
NOVANEWS Drum.co.za/ Mary Serumaga South Africa’s once revered ANC ruling party now behaves as if it is entitled to the republic. The motto on the country’s parliamentary coat of arms may as well be changed […]
Ahmed Kathrada’s letter to President Jacob Zuma Alchetron Ahmed Kathrada ‘Now that the court has found that the President failed to uphold, defend and respect the Constitution as the supreme law, how should I relate […]
NOVANEWS A Nigerian human rights lawyer has called for the immediate and unconditional release of senior Shia cleric and leader of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN), Sheikh Ibrahim al-Zakzaky. In a Tuesday letter to […]
NOVANEWS Zwelinzima Vavi Unless South Africans stand up to reclaim the right to determine their own destiny, they are in danger of watching our beloved country becoming a predatory state. The hyenas are gathering. THE […]
NOVANEWS Yash Tandon The recent controversy surrounding the statue of Cecil Rhodes at Oriel College provides an excellent backdrop to understanding Oxford’s structural and institutionalised backwardness in the area of social science teaching and […]
NOVANEWS Abdulrazaq Magaji Today’s Angola proves the African proverb that all manner of knives are brought out the day an elephant is killed. Pity is that the party that should have all Angolans in attendance […]
NOVANEWS Mary de Haas In 22 years there has been no real transformation of the bedrock structures of colonialism. Under-developed rural areas administered by colonially transformed traditional leaders, aommodation of migrants in degrading urban hostels, […]
NOVANEWS Motsoko Pheko The whole point of the freedom struggle was the repossession of land by African people from the hands of Europeans who had grabbed it. But the ruling ANC will never resolve […]
NOVANEWS Odomaro Mubangizi By all aounts, Uganda’s elections last month were far from free and fair. Many people find it difficult to aept that the declaration of Museveni as winner reflected the will of […]