OBITUARY: A TRIBUTE TO COMRADE JEFFERY SEDI MODISE
Comrade Jeffery Sedi Modise will be remembered as a shining light at time when darkness…
Month: Jul 2009
THE COLLABORATION OF NELSON MANDELA AND THE WHITE SUPREMACIST AFRIKANER NATIONALIST PARTY
The collaboration of Nelson Mandela and the Nationalist Party’s FW De Klerk catapulted South Africa…
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BOTSWANA, LESOTHO AND SWAZILAND UNDERMINES AFRICAN SOLIDARITY IN FAVOUR OF EUROPE
Three land-locked countries, Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland who are members of the South African Customs…
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NATIONALISATION AND THE RESOLUTION OF THE NATIONAL QUESTION – AN ALTERNATIVE APPROACH
The Kempton Park Settlement was and remains a flawed settlement because it was based on the interpretation of the National Question not as that of settler colonialism or a colonialism of a special type. It conflated the struggle for national self-determination and independence to that of democratisation. Having reduced the National Question to that of democratisation, serious compromises were made on fundamental issues of the land and by extension the property clauses that guaranteed the retention of ill gotten gains by the white minority and rendered the question of nationalisation a mere restitution case based on willing buyer and willing seller. In short the Kliptown Charter vision of Nationalisation was thrown out of the window at Kempton Park. Thus leaving control of mining and land in the hands of the white minority, with very little room to make necessary and required radical changes.