Mphutlane Wa Bofelo

The outcry by many workers that the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) sold them out during the recent public workers strike, and the inability of the broader left to link-up and consolidate the various initiatives towards a strong left alternative, reflects a crisis of leadership in

Luis Suárez’s so-called ‘hand of God’ save has once again brought into public discourse the extent to which competitive and highly commercialised sport – with its emphasis on winning at all costs – can be consistent with the principles of fairness, the ideal of sportsmen and sportswomen as positi

The smell of sausage is in the air, a significant number of men, women and children are strutting around with vuvuzelas in their hands; some are clad in Bafana Bafana t-shirts despite it being three days after South Africa’s three-nil drubbing by Uruguay.

Allusion to the national students’ uprising of 16 June 1976, which started in Soweto, is found in innumerable poems, stories, songs, paintings and theatrical works by both local and international writers and artists.

The debate and analysis in the media following the death of Eugene Terreblanche once again reflects the penchant for de-linking race from class dynamics.

The mere proposal of an All-Africa Muslim Women formation nearly caused brouhaha at a conference I recently attended. Some righteous males started pontificating about women wanting to dethrone them from their God-given seat of being the centre around which the life of a woman should revolve.

The debates around ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema’s singing of the song ‘Dubula bhunu’ – meaning ‘shoot the Boers’ – which also contains the lyrics: ‘these dogs are rapists’, says a lot about efforts to deflect the attention of the people a

The tendency to project the racist, sexist, violent-peddling hate-talk of Julius Malema as just a normal expression of the fervour, overzealousness and recklessness of youth, is a deliberate attempt to take focus away from sober, critical, vigilant, intellectual, innovative and creative voices an

In the wake of media exposure of his lavish and opulent lifestyle as well as business interest mostly sustained by government tenders, South Africa’s ANC Youth League president, Julius ‘juju magic’ Malema has suddenly come out in the clear about w

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