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Legal Victory for Section 27

Ndifuna Ukwazi congratulates Section 27 on its recent legal victory in the fight for basic education. The Department of Basic Education (“the DBE”) and the Limpopo Department of Education (“the Department”) have so far failed to supply textbooks to learners and schools throughout Limpopo for the academic year of 2012. On 17 May 2012, following

 
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An abdication of decency and justice: Barend van Niekerk, Kader Hassim, the apartheid judiciary and free speech

A tribute to the late Professor Barend van Niekerk “The Terrorism Act, as I have said, is a negation of what any true lawyer would ever call justice. And yet our lawyers, the guardians of our nation’s legal heritage, have done so very little to mitigate its crudities. “Cannot our Judiciary even go further and

 
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“Your request has been referred to the Security Police”: A letter from prison (1980)

On Good Friday, I was looking through old copies of Work in Progress and the South African Labour Bulletin. These journals played a critical part in the political education of my generation and that of many other activists during the 1970s and 80s. I was not being nostalgic, I was preparing some reading material for

 
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George Orwell “Why I Write” – Cassie Metcalf-Slovo

Cassie Metcalf- Slovo will write regular introductions to the essay of George Orwell for Ndifuna Ukwazi. Her first introduction on political writing and Orwell’s reasons for writing tackles the subject of “bias”.   In this essay George Orwell expands on the reasons why he writes in clear, precise and dispassionate prose. He says that writing

 
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“We have done with pleading”: The ANC Centenary and Women’s Leadership

The ANC was founded in January 1912. Today Ndifuna Ukwazi pays tribute to Black women who created a mass movement that came to build the best traditions of the ANC. It is also a tribute to women struggling globally for freedom on International Women’s Day (08 March 2012). Women in their 1913 anti-pass law campaign

 
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