Well known HIV and political activist Zackie Achmat explored yesterday his feelings about the Democratic Alliance congress yesterday on the Centre for Law and Social Justice blog, Writing Rights.
There is much I disagree with in Mr. Achmat’s analysis of the DA, it’s politics, it’s internal workings and philosophies as well as its true agenda. […]
Filed under: Cape Town, Commentary, Democratic Alliance, Ideas, Liberalism, Politics, Reconciliation, Society by Andrew la Grange
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The African National Congress’ (ANC) constant framing of South African political life in terms of race, quotas and segmentation of the population into groups is a natural extension of the black nationalism that increasingly overtakes the many forms of political expression that once found a home within the broad church of struggle politics.
The ruling […]
Filed under: Cape Town, Democratic Alliance, Ideas, Liberalism, Politics by Andrew la Grange
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I’ve been out of Cape Town since mid-January, spending a few weeks in one of the world’s true Capital cities – London.
I’m so conflicted when I am in the London. It is such an incredible melting pot, a morass of people and cultures, languages and behaviours. And yet despite its many different people it […]
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I absolutely loved reading this article. My first job was on Pepper Street in 2003, the street had already started its metamorphosis into playground for euro trash, but walking up from the station on many a morning at 7am are some of my happiest memories; lunches spent digging around Serendipity book store, or going to […]
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Sian and I were at the SANG (South African National Gallery for those who never did Art at high school) this weekend, getting a good dose of culture, after walking around in the Gardens.
I’ll keep my rant on why museums and galleries funded by taxpayers money should be open to the public for free for […]
Filed under: Africa, Art, Cape Town, Commentary, Corruption, Design, Education, Media, Society, Zuma by Andrew la Grange
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This morning Gareth Cliff jokingly referred to “The Republic of Cape Town”, with its “President” Helen Zille. I decided to go a web search to find out who else viewed my home this way, and if perhaps there was some nascent separatist movement I didn’t know about.
In doing so I came across Zukiswa Wanner’s […]
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