By Jon Qwelane I respond to the article ‘Apartheid in post-apartheid South Africa’ by Andrew M. Mwenda (The Independent, November 12-18, 2010). Mwenda’s piece is much like the proverbial curate’s egg “ it is good in places. My summation is that it is very bad in the places where it is …
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By Andrew M. Mwenda On October 24th, I went to Entebbe Airport to catch a South African Airways flight via Johannesburg to Namibia. Airline officials said I needed a transit visa through South Africa. I explained that I was not going to enter the country, only to change flights in …
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By Bob Kasango Eugene Terreblanche, the 69-year-old White South African supremacist, was attacked on Saturday evening at his home on his farm near the town of Ventersdorp, North West province in South Africa. South Africa’s history is littered with killings and so the killing of a White farmer far away …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Thabo Mbeki addressed the country on September 21, 2008 after he sent a letter to the Speaker of the National Assembly, tendering his resignation as President of the Republic of South Africa. Mbeki decided to resign after he was asked to do so by the …
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