· May, 2006

Stories about South Africa from May, 2006

South Africa: Black South Africa do read

  10 May 2006

Being told that Black South Africans dont read set Lavina Live on a search through South Africa's rich literary history. …”This post is a tribute to the great South African writers of my generation, and generations past, black, white and all in between. This is also a wake-up call to...

Jacob Zuma Acquittal

  9 May 2006

Yesterday, Jacob Zuma was acquitted on rape charges and the compliant known as Khwezi is on her way to a life of exile. The response in the African blogosphere is varied and ranges from those who are outraged at the verdict believing Zuma to be guilty of rape. Then there...

African Music #8

  9 May 2006

I recently had a discussion with a friend about fair trade and it threw up some deep questions about African music. Who really owns the rights to the recordings? Who brokers what? How connected is the artist to his/her audience market? Is the music industry inherently complex? Is this solely...

South Africa: Zuma Aquitted

  8 May 2006

Black Looks reports that Jacob Zuma has been aquitted of rape……..”The verdict is a loss for the Khwezi and for all the other women who will now be deterred from reporting rape knowing that they cannot expect justice to be done. That their personal lives will be invaded in the...

African Diaspora: Hard times for Africans in France and Belgium

Several francophone blogs have tackled African immigrants’ latest tribulations in France and Belgium. Choosing Immigrants Le Pangolin criticizes French interior minister Nicolas Sarkozy’s latest round of immigration policies. The blogger sees Sarkozy’s approach as a diversion from the real social issues raised by protestors of the CPE [Youth Employment Law]....

South Africa: SATAWU Union

  5 May 2006

Politics.za makes some criticisms against the SA labour union, SATAWU.…”With the average security earning R1500 a month the strike it will take a striker 10 months to earn back the wages he may have lost if SATAWU manages to get the 11% increase. If SATAWU settles for 8.3% like the...

South Africa: Freedom Day

  2 May 2006

Lavina Live comments on “Freedom Day” in South Africa which is a holiday….”Our freedom was indeed not free. I remembered that, the first time I went to vote in the national elections in 2004. I remember it each time a political figure is busted for corruption. I remember it each...

  1 May 2006

Yebo Gogo reports on an exchange of words between Archbishop Desmond Tutu and former SA president, De Klerk….”Archbishop Desmond Tutu said South Africa's whites aren't appreciative of the actions the country's black community took after the fall of apartheid. Former apartheid president FW de Klerk said blacks need to recognize...