For the next in our series of Dialogues we invite you to a battle of the generals. The secretary-general from Cala, the ANC’s Gwede Mantashe, will tell us whether local government can be fixed. The general from Mqanduli, the UDM’s Bantu Holomisa, will tackle him head on.
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LOOKING INTO THE FUTURE: Constitutional lawyer and University of Cape Town professor Richard Calland delivers his dialogue based on his latest book The Vuvuzela Revolution in East London on Monday night. Pic: ALAN EASON
Concourt lawyer and political activist Professor Richard Calland believes South Africa has adapted a welcoming attitude towards corruption, writes Michael Kimberley. Read the rest of this entry »
Rhodes University's VC Saleem Badat
Rhodes University vice-chancellor Saleem Badat lashed out at the youth this week, saying South Africa was impoverished intellectually and politically because many of them used politics as stepping stones towards eating sushi, reports Mayibongwe Maqhina. Read the rest of this entry »
Dr Barney Pityana
Leading black Eastern Cape academics have warned that South Africa has become an “apocalyptic environment” – and that President Jacob Zuma is a “national problem”. Read the rest of this entry »
For the next in our series of Dialogues, we present Nyameko Barney Pityana and Mcebisi Ndletyana for two stimulating talks on democracy in South Africa and nation-building. Read the rest of this entry »
In the first extract from his book Jay Naidoo recalls the upheaval of his family’s removal from their Greenwood Park home
LIFELONG ACTIVIST: Jay Naidoo, centre, with Lionel September, Elijah Barayi and Marcel Golding, campaigning for the ANC in 1994.
For the next in our series of Dialogues we will host Jay Naidoo – UDF stalwart, the first general secretary of Cosatu, a Cabinet Minister and a man who has given away one-third of his wealth. He will be in conversation with Richard Pithouse of Rhodes University’s politics department.
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In March 2009 the Daily Dispatch launched the Community Dialogues, a hyperlocal incarnation of its highly successful public Dialogues. As a series of public “town hall” meetings, the Community Dialogues represented South Africa’s first full scale experiment with civic journalism, a worldwide press reform movement which subscribes to the simple, but apparently controversial premise that the press should promote and improve – not merely report on and complain about – the quality of civic life.
The Community Dialogues emanated, at in part, from the newspaper’s concern that South Africa’s democracy is suffering from serious democratic deficit. The Dispatch hoped that the Community Dialogues would serve a number of cor purposes, including the building of “horizontal bridges” within civil society as well as the facilitation of “vertical bridges” between civil society and the State. Rod Amner critically examines the first three Community Dialogues, which each yielded very different results.
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Most Eastern Cape towns, including East London and many of its suburbs, could have new names in the not too distant future. Members of the provincial Geographic Names Committee have been criss-crossing the province, meeting communities to get views on the topic. There is even a suggestion that the Amathole Region be renamed after Steve Biko.
Now the Daily Dispatch and University of Fort Hare are bringing some of those involved in this hotly contested debate under one roof to thrash the matter out. And we invite the general public and civil society organisations, including ratepayers’ associations, to attend and make their voices heard.
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