Donkeyshott & Xuitlacoche

Cuts are New Labour's death warrent... ...so why don't the British Trade Unions help to start a new political party? When Brown announced that his government intended to introduce cuts today he was aligning himself with the Tories and effectively signing New Labour's death warrent. Using the gloss of identity politics and invoking Labour's old traditions will not fool the electorate for much longer. New Labour and the Conservatives work for the same people. Polly Toynbee is wrong. There is no any time left to make a clear distinction between the Tories and Labour. They are both clearly following the same agenda. After Gordon Brown's speech to the unions, to highlight the differences between the parties mere pedantry. There is no way anyone who is even vaguely socialist can vote for Labour now unless Labour has a leadership election and gets rid of Brown and sidelines all the New Labourites. If Labour is willing to go down the road of cuts to public services this bas

Photo by Susmita Chatterji We arrived in New Delhi in January when the weather was still mild, and the three of us had to adapt to a new school: The British School. Mom and dad quickly became friends with the ANC representatives in New Delhi: Aggie, Mosie and Zubie. We got to know the Msimang kids and my brothers became firm friends with Fabian. When you teased Fabian he didn't laugh, he just smiled, stood up straight, feet planted slightly apart, and looked right back at you with a fist under each bicep. The twins were 13 and more adventurous than I. With our parents' approval, they travelled with Fabian all over town. Fabian knew the ropes and they tried all the different kinds of street food together without falling ill. But the twins were a bit girlish; their voices hadn't broken and their long hair was turning from light brown to straw blond in the sun, so Fabian found himself protecting them from the seedy, bottom pinching men that there always are on

Mom is just 22 and just married and just two months pregnant, (but she doesn't know it). This is the first time she has really been apart from her mother and father and she sounds so enthusiastic about being on her own with dad, but neither of them really know how to work it. She writes long letter after long letter to Lisa and Richard while she and dad are in Cape Town. This is one letter of many. Dad is 23 and taking a course in journalism. Mom mentions Marius Skoon . Mom's old letters are so newsy and fresh and upbeat a wonderful tonic for anyone who reads them. 19, Trianon, Ave. Marseilles, Sea Point, Cape Town. 22/4/59 Darling Mom and Dad, I've just got your letter telling me about Frame , and it's very exciting. I hope something came out of it. And I can tell you one thing, that if you live in Paarl , as soon as possible, To and I are going to live in Cape Town too. We were just saying yesterday, that it would be marvellous if we could make our per