Tag Archives: south africa

March, 2018

• 20 March

  R162 million is not enough.

  

  Adam Butler Dikgang Moseneke’s award in the Life Esidimeni arbitration is a recognition of the horror of psychiatric patients in South Africa. But it is not a solution. Any government has the responsibility to protect its people. Year after year, we vote, petition and protest in order to secure this …

December, 2017

• 22 December

  RUReference List FAQ: Where to start.

  

  Adam Butler and Chloé  Osmond Recently, two students at the University Currently Known as Rhodes (UCKAR) were excluded from the university for life for what is being called “conduct beyond lawful boundaries”. It has been a year and a half since the events in question took place. Students who started …

September, 2017

• 28 September

  Neil Aggett Memorial Lecture 2017: We Cannot Afford to Recreate the Evils of Apartheid

  

  Adam Butler On 21 September, Trevor Manuel delivered this year’s Neil Aggett Memorial Lecture. As a Kingswood alumnus, Neil Aggett is remembered through an annual lecture series at Kingswood College, in the past delivered by luminaries such as Justice Albie Sachs and Thuli Madonsela. Mr Manuel took the opportunity to …

April, 2017

• 9 April

  Anything ‘Junkier’ Than Status?

  

  Leago Mamabolo and Geoffrey Shein South Africa’s president, Jacob Zuma, can be said to be a man who has weathered many storms- and not the good kind, if storms can be said to be any good. Zuma’s 2006 rape trial recently resurfaced in 2016 under the hashtags #RememberKhwezi and #1in3. …

March, 2017

• 31 March

  The reshuffling of an already-weak hand of cards.

  

  Geoffrey Shein President Jacob Zuma fired Minister Pravin Gordhan last night. Zuma held an emergency meeting at his residential home where he announced the reshuffling of his cabinet along with the ousting of several ministers. This political reshuffling has removed the stalwart guardian of treasury: Pravin Gordhan. Now ex-minister, Pravin …