Monthly Archives: December 2020

Why ‘Marxist’ Bozzoli felt more at home in DA than in nationalistic ANC
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Why ‘Marxist’ Bozzoli felt more at home in DA than in nationalistic ANC

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Why ‘Marxist’ Bozzoli felt more at home in DA than in nationalistic ANC

Watching, online, the moving memorial service at Wits in tribute to its late academic leader and latter-day parliamentarian, Belinda Bozzoli, induced an element of time travel. It was 1978 and Bozzoli, my Industrial Relations 1 lecturer, was at the time the most radical (and feminist) person in authority I had yet encountered. It was not, [...]

By Tony Leon|2020-12-17T09:01:29+00:00December 17th, 2020|Opinion|0 Comments

Batty decisions are a blow, but the vaccine shambles is unforgivable
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Batty decisions are a blow, but the vaccine shambles is unforgivable

Corona Virus, Cyril Ramaphosa, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma

Batty decisions are a blow, but the vaccine shambles is unforgivable

“Putting the moron into oxymoron” struck me as the right lens to view the latest restrictions and beach closures announced on Monday by President Cyril Ramaphosa. Still, he is the messenger — here and in so many instances — for the whims, prejudices, non-scientific and often evidence-free diktats of co-operative governance and traditional affairs (Cogta) [...]

By Tony Leon|2020-12-17T06:31:58+00:00December 17th, 2020|Corona Virus, Cyril Ramaphosa, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma|0 Comments