Freedom has been the word of the year. Freedom’s bells have rung in the “Arab Spring” towards an ambitious but uncertain future, while back at home we’ve been mired in our own fight to retain one of our most basic constitutional freedoms: freedom of the press.
Meanwhile, the global community – as well as our very own ANC Youth League – is struggling with economic emancipation while the complex questions of freedom of information are making us all think about what’s floating around on the internet.
The Mail & Guardian’s eagerly anticipated, best-selling; bumper end-of-year edition will explore these issues and more with some of the country’s top writers and thinkers. Our readers will delve into the business of freemium and the Freedom Charter and our not-so-free communities and find out what sex has to do with it.
We’ll also have our annual features including:
- Cabinet Report Card 2011: Find out which Cabinet members have made the grade with our quality political analysis.
- The Year in Photographs — The Mail & Guardian photos that defined 2011
- News Quiz — Thought you knew your news? Our quiz tests your knowledge of politics, current affairs, sport and entertainment
- Nic Dawes on press freedom and where we’re headed
- S&M will set you free: Niren Tolsi gets whipped
- Nothing is for free: Jason Norwood-Young on the complex reality of internet freedom
- Achille Mbembe on freedom, race and inequality
- Life in the green zone: Tanya Pampalone on living behind the gates
- Airport ecology: Sean O’Toole takes flight
- Pallo Jordan on the ANC at 100
- Free in Ficksburg: Kwanle Sosibo on life after Andries Tatane’s death
- What to do for free — or nearly nothing: Your holiday guide to fun on the cheap
- 2011 Obituaries
- Madame and Eve on Holiday
- Zapiro 2011
The final 2011 M&G paper is out December 23. Get your copy or miss out on a riveting read.
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