Nicholas Tucker

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Though we might see events in Libya as a sort of twisted fantasy tale, their effects will be all too real for the country and Africa at large, writes Nicholas H. Tucker.

cc Who defines true liberation? Watch out for the role of the global elite in manipulating the outcome of the Middle East and North Africa revolutions, writes Nicholas H. Tucker.

US Army

Following comments from South African Defence Minister Lindiwe Sisulu around the need for the country's defence force to be a 'rite of passage' for young people, Nicholas Tucker suspects such remarks to indicate moves towards 'a massive recruitment campaign for the AFRICOM [US Africa Command] programme'. Conscription is not a 'rite of passage', Tucker stresses, 'unless of course your country happens to be Sparta'.

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South Africa’s ANC has spent hundreds of billions of rand in preparation for the World Cup, writes Nicholas Tucker, with ‘almost none of it’ improving the lives of the millions of citizens struggling with unemployment, reduced wages, poor housing, lowered education outcomes and failing health systems. Will ‘the hard-pressed working class of this country realise how they have been short-changed by the ruling party’, asks Tucker, and if so, how will they ‘express their displeasure'? It ‘may wel...read more