The highest ranking ANC official assassinated outside of South Africa is hardly known in the country for which she gave her life. On 29 March 1988, Dulcie September, the ANC Chief Representative in France, Switzerland, and Luxembourg, was killed with five rifle shots to the head as she entered the ANC offices in Paris. To …
Groups like uMkhonto we Sizwe and others struggling against colonialism and post-colonialism needed weapons for their struggles and, more importantly, training. While a lot of this came from the Soviet bloc, many liberation movements were less-than-eager to jettison one colonial overlord in the west for one in the east. It was into this gap …
It was an audacious plan. A young South African man employed at the construction site of the Koeberg Nuclear Power Plant near Cape Town managed to steal the plans for the facility. Then that same young man managed to get the plans to the militant wing of the ANC, uMkhonto we Sizwe (Spear of the …
It was an intelligence game, and when you were in it, you didn’t think much about the consequences. you played a role; you played the game. But a lot of the people we involved ourselves in were either arrested or imprisoned, and some of them died. Because in the end, it was not a game. …
Madagascar had a king. And then they didn’t. But maybe they still did. To this day no one is entirely sure. It begins with Madagascar’s Queen Ranavalona, who through bloody conquest managed to unite most of the island under her rule while also successfully keeping Europe at bay. The only problem was that to accomplish …
I think submission to authority and absolving oneself from blame by saying that one has to obey orders are widespread… I think all medical students should be taught about the research on submissiveness being a key etiological factor in the perpetuation of atrocities. They should be fully familiar with Milgram’s work and reflect on Hannah …
Aminatta Forna tackles trauma, although not in the way that most western readers are used to dealing with trauma’s effects. Her previous book, Happiness, brings a different explanation to how different cultures deal with trauma. The problem, rather than the trauma itself, is societal expectations of trauma. Those who expect a trauma-free life as …
Whenever there is a vacancy in the Office of the President, the First Vice-President shall assume that office for the remainder of the term and shall appoint another to serve as First Vice-President for the remainder of the term. — Section 83, Subsection 4 of the Malawi Constitution When President of Malawi, Bingu wa Mutharika …
April 7, 1994 was an evil day. It was not just a day of evil in one place, but a day of evil across continents. It was on 6 April 1992 that the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina began. And it was on 6 April 1994 that the Rwandan Genocide began with the plane crash …
I always wanted to leave home. I never knew they were going to stop me from coming back. Maybe if I knew, I never would have left. It is kind of painful to be away from everything you’ve ever known. Nobody will know the pain of exile until you are in exile. No matter where …
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