kameraad mhambi

This photo was taken by Shayne Robinson in Thokoza two days ago. It is part of a series of protests against the governments inability to deliver basic services to the poor and for failing to deliver on their – admittedly grandiose – election promises.
The AWB of course never governed South Africa. But no matter. This [...]

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Kameraad Mhambi really really likes Barack Obama.
It’s rare that I agree with one person on so many things, and then this person happens to be the world’s most powerful president. Below you’ll find a reason why I say this. It’s an excerpt from his speech to the Ghanaian parliament.
If this speech had been [...]

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Georges Ndlovu, the tavern's owner, was injured in the robbery. "Nobody helped," he said of his neighbors. "I don't blame them. I would not have helped."
The New York Times’s Barry Bearak have done a great job reporting on rampant crime in Diepsloot Johannesburg. He points out how policing is being privatised. The poor organise themselves [...]

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The love affair with Thabo Mbeki endures.
Kameraad Mhambi attended a talk hosted by the Commonwealth Journalists Association (CJA) in London Thursday night. South Africa: Which way forward was the title of talk.
Odd, I never heard of many of these talks when Mbeki came to power. Yet its with the presidency of [...]

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Last weekend I found myself walking through London Fields, Hackney real early at 7am.
I had had two nightmare’s. In one my friends and I were trying to escape from a war zone. The other one was just bizarre. Anyway, I was wide awake, got up and went for [...]

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When Kameraad Mhambi arrived in the green and pleasant land, the world was very different.
Protests had rocked international meetings in Seattle and Genova. The anti-globalisation movement and allied groups were making their voice heard.
When a protest was organised in the city of London, I went to have a look.
I wanted to see what a riot [...]

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Mhambi’s favourite two economic journalists – Martin Wolf and Robert Peston – chatted at Davos. Listen to the audio recording.
Wolf says that most world leaders now get that were in a massive downturn, but he is unsure they get that there will have to be a structural change in the world economy I [...]

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