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Politics and government

Obamandela

From a lecture delivered in January at the Gorée Institute, in Senegal. Breytenbach’s essay “Mandela’s Smile” appeared in the December 2008 issue of Harper’s Magazine. First it was the voice. It…

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Achievetrons

Few men are so disinterested as to prefer to live in discomfort under a government which they hold to be right, rather than in comfort under one which they hold to be…

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Mandela’s Smile

I did not struggle to be poor.—Smuts Ngonyama, spokesman, African National Congress The “state of emergency” in which we live is not the exception but the rule.—Walter Benjamin Dear Madiba,…

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The Activist

On July 14 the International Criminal Court requested a warrant for the arrest of Omar Hassan al-Bashir, the president of Sudan, on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity. Since…

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