It is Saturday (04/04/2009). The sun is unforgivably hot. Probably it is the absence of an umbrella on my part. How could I? None of the ANC volunteers can afford an umbrella; it would be rude and unfair of me to have one covering my head alone, while others were left at the mercy of the sun, so I decided not to buy or carry one with me.
Join the Amandla! Media and the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation at the Cape Town Bookfair on Sunday the 1st August 2010.
We will be discussing the Legacy of Dennis Brutus, where various South African poets reflect on Dennis Brutus’ literary legacy and activists reflect on Dennis Brutus’ contribution to post-apartheid political activism
The G20, a forum constructed by the powerfully rich G8 countries, by drawing in the so-called emerging economies of China, India, Brazil and which also includes South Africa, met at the end of June to tackle the on-going global financial crisis and the threat of a further slide into recession. They failed.
The presidency of George W. Bush was the moment of the greatest electoral sweep of left-of-center political parties in Latin America in the last two centuries. The presidency of Barack Obama risks being the moment of the revenge of the right in Latin America.
The reason may well be the same - the combination of the decline of American power with the continuing centrality of the United States in world politics. At one and the same time, the United States is unable to impose itself and is nonetheless expected by everyone to enter the playing field on their side.
The Dutch government didn’t fall in February over involvement in Afghanistan, the unstable governing coalition stumbled over it. But the Islamophobic right wing might be the beneficiary.
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It is Saturday (04/04/2009). The sun is unforgivably hot. Probably it is the absence of an umbrella on my part. How could I? None of the ANC volunteers can afford an umbrella; it would be rude and unfair of me to have one covering my head alone, while others were left at the mercy of the sun, so I decided not to buy or carry one with me.
Join the Amandla! Media and the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation at the Cape Town Bookfair on Sunday the 1st August 2010. 
The G20, a forum constructed by the powerfully rich G8 countries, by drawing in the so-called emerging economies of China, India, Brazil and which also includes South Africa, met at the end of June to tackle the on-going global financial crisis and the threat of a further slide into recession. They failed. 
The Dutch government didn’t fall in February over involvement in Afghanistan, the unstable governing coalition stumbled over it. But the Islamophobic right wing might be the beneficiary.
