By Professor Mike Neocosmos – Centre for Humanities Research UWC, South Africa At the very time when it most often mouths the word, the West has never been further from being able to live a true humanism – a humanism made to the measure of the world (Aimé Césaire). Whoever is engaged in popular struggles […]
Fri, February 4 2011 » Human rights, Zimbabwe Review » No Comments
By Stephen Chan – Professor of International Relations at the School of Oriental and African Studies in the University of London. Yale University Press will release Professor Chan’s Southern Africa: Old Treacheries and New Deceits in 2011. A South African edition will be published by Jonathan Ball. There is no single view of Zimbabwe internationally. […]
Fri, January 21 2011 » Zimbabwe Review » 3 Comments
By Brian Raftopoulos – Centre for Humanities Research, University of the Western Cape, and Solidarity Peace Trust. This article has been published in ‘The Round Table‘ Introduction At the heart of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), mediation on the Zimbabwe crisis has been the role of the South African government, which in its position […]
Wed, January 19 2011 » Global Political Agreement, Zimbabwe Review » 3 Comments
by Dr Rory Pilossof – Post-doctoral Fellow at the University of Pretoria (January 2011) Introduction As a result of the government’s fast-track land reform programme, spearheaded by veterans of the country’s Liberation War, the plight of the white farmers in Zimbabwe became international headline news. Images of white farmers who were beaten, killed, exiled and […]
Wed, December 1 2010 » Command agriculture, Zimbabwe Review » 1 Comment
By Shari Eppel – Solidarity Peace Trust I have on my desk, a silver, two-shilling, 1947, Southern Rhodesia King George VI coin, and two big copper pennies with holes in the middle, one from 1949 (Southern Rhodesia) and one from 1956 (Rhodesia and Nyasaland). These are prized souvenirs of my time in a COPAC outreach […]
Mon, November 1 2010 » Constitution, Zimbabwe Review » 5 Comments
