Donkeyshott & Xuitlacoche

I think the people here are Connie, Jack, Betty's sister, Philip, Betty Frank and a dog called Bruno or Bozo. I wonder where this is in South Africa?

Andy Eve Chris and Phil

John Saul and the Global Miasma (Written in January 2001) John Saul's important essay in Monthly Review, Cry for the Beloved Country, so thoughtful and balanced, reawakened me to The Critique on South Africa. It laid down what I consider to be the correct historical markers for the last decade, and pointed to possible entry points for progressive change within what has to remain, for me, The Movement, if only as a broad framework – and which The Movement ignored, or rejected, one after another. I'll offer one reminder of the way our leadership was driven back behind the line when they uttered even the slightest bleat that was not in the corporate script for change: it was mid-to-late 1991, I think, when Mandela was reported as saying that the ANC would seek to introduce anti-trust laws and institutions of the kind the US had. For this mildest of comments, he was immediately shot down in flames by Anglo American – Gavin Reilly, I think it was – for such reckless talk...(a...

. . . . . Picasso: Don Quixote A car arrived at dad's funeral with one of our dearest friends, Aggie Msimang sent by the ANC with a message of condolence from Jacob Zuma, ANC President, Kgalema Motlanthe ANC Secretary General, Sankie Mahanyele, Deputy Secretary General, Mendi Msimang, Treasurer General. Aggie came to the three sons saying: "You can be assured that by tomorrow morning your father's 2020 vision will be on the desk of every single ANC leader." Daring to dream, preparing to act Now is the mandate, now is the opportunity, now is the time. A Quixotic mix of policy guidelines and practical measures to remind us that there are alternatives – there is a way. by Tony Hall It is the duty of the present generation of leadership, a very broad spectrum in itself – from exile, Robben Island, 1976, MK, COSATU, MDM, SACP and the Youth Leagues – to return to the transformation of society, to lay the base for completing th...