This is a time of loneliness and deep uncertainty. For the first time in a generation, we are thrust into the very core of our human vulnerability. For now, we live as people did for thousands of years before us, smitten dumb by the power of nature, unable to protect ourselves from its invincibility.
22 January was the anniversary of the battle of Isandlwana. I wrote this article in 2014, it may be of interest to you.
The battle of Isandlwana in 1879 – in which a force of 20,000 Zulus annihilated a British contingent of 1,800 men – became a symbol to black South Africans that white domination was not inevitable. The stories are still being told today.
Isandlwana: The defeat that stunned Victorian Britain Read More »
This week marks the 20th anniversary of the beginning of the Iraq War and the official coalition military operations in the days and short weeks that followed. The war, as conceived by the planners in the Pentagon along with their allies the British, the Spanish and a number of other smaller European countries, was over quickly. By May 1 of that year, President George Bush was calling it ‘Mission Accomplished’, declaring the end of major combat operations.
Death and Deceit In Iraq Read More »
5 January – EWN: The inquest into the deaths of former apartheid activists known as the Cradock Four has been reopened following new evidence.
Matthew Goniwe, Sparrow Mkonto, Fort Calata and Sicelo Mhlauli were abducted and killed in 1985 while on their way home to Cradock in the Eastern Cape.
Adriaan Vlok – the old man and the dark shadow of the past Read More »