BEE partners are chosen exclusively by the companies transferring ownership and structured by banks. Government has never chosen BEE beneficiaries and structured not a single BEE deal. If BEE is concentrated amongst a few and connected people, it’s by companies and banks.

Father Trevor Huddleston bids farewell to his friend, Oliver Tambo as he leaves Liverpool Street Station in London, bound for Africa, where he will take up his new post as Bishop of Masasi in Tanganyika (Tanzania), 8th September 1960.

We were never going to get deal with such an irrational and unreliable interlocutor. He has no regard for trivial things such as rules and the dictates of the market

What a lovely photo, hopeful even. Taken at a time when the worst - and ultimately the best - was yet to come

"The future is bright. The end is glorious; it is peaceful. But the intervening period is dark, bitter and finds its glory in the act of struggle. Joe Gqabi is part of this glory" - OR's eulogy to Gqabi, women's day 1981. Speech is worth reading in full: sahistory.org.za/archive/speech…

Emma Powell clashed with DA leader John Steenhuisen over her controversial statements and her association with controversial figure Andre Pienaar raised red flags with the DTIC and DIRCO. Carol Paton news24.com/business/econo…

To be generous to the DA MP, maybe it is a tricky balance between being oppositional and being subversive. But quite frankly, Emma Powell got the balance wrong. What a curious figure.

In this speech below, 1981, OR makes explicit reference to Women’s Day. A day that has always been celebrated by most South Africans “Our women, the most oppressed of that society, the most exploited, the ones who carry most grief when death comes.”

Very much so. The whole speech matched the moment. Hard to overstate how massive a blow Nzingo’s death was to the Movement and the liberation project.

A profound example of the so called Imperial Boomerang.

This is incredible. Heads have rolled for less

Well maybe this is true, maybe it isn’t. Second order considerations…The very real misgivings some folks had, including Mbeki, about the custodianship of what is a crucial stream still stand. What is the Project here anyway, is there a Project?

Motshekga is quoted in this article as asking what the big deal is, why the fuss. All the while continuing to contradict colleagues from DIRCO - all the while the President or Presidency has kept silent - thus creating a very chaotic - and wholly avoidable - vacuum.

The subtext here, as echoed by various DA types, is that South African couldn’t have conceivably supported Palestine without being manipulated by Iran and others

“The National dialogue may usher in a generational change” – Yacoob Abba Omar. As South Africa reflects on its democratic journey, the idea of a National Dialogue emerges as more than just a conversation, it is a platform to confront the country’s most pressing challenges and

Was the ‘panic’ not warranted: x.com/ewnupdates/sta…

A core tenant of the makings of a state is that it retains a monopoly on violence. Things in this place seem to be reframed.

A very harrowing listen