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/ 20 January 2003

The North is not our axis

In the course of our ANC national conference in December, Joel Netshitenzhe presented the strategy and tactics document to the media. Among other things, it affirms the ANC is ”neither neo-liberal nor ultra-left”. Which is true, but it’s like those old colonial maps of Africa.

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/ 20 January 2003

At last, a fresh idea

It was a forlorn image. Two Palestinian delegates facing not the British foreign secretary but a humble TV set. On top of the box, one of those neat Internet camera gizmos, the kind kids use to talk – in slow, juddering, delayed time – to their granny in Australia.

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/ 20 January 2003

Bushwhacked

It is more than 30 years ago now, though it seems like yesterday. A Republican president, much derided by liberals, was in the White House and his opponents were being lashed by the right-wing attack dogs, led then by the vice-president, Spiro Agnew.