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Where I Stand 26/05/2016

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‘I was brought up a Marxist.  Nowdays that isn’t much of a boast.’ This is how Tony Judt, one of the great liberals of the last … [Read more...] about Where I Stand 26/05/2016

Filed Under: where I stand Tagged With: ANC, Edward Said, Liberalism, South Africa, Tony Judt

Where I Stand 25/05/2016

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I have just read the judgment against the UCT students who were involved in burning some of the University’s art collection.  Of … [Read more...] about Where I Stand 25/05/2016

Filed Under: where I stand Tagged With: Civil Disobedience, Featured, HLA Hart, post-colonialism, South Africa, UCT Students Burning Art

Where I Stand 24/05/2016

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With all of the Frantz Fanon worship going around I thought that I would finally read The Wretched of the Earth cover-to-cover – … [Read more...] about Where I Stand 24/05/2016

Filed Under: where I stand Tagged With: Albert Camus, Frantz Fanon, post-colonialism, Simone Weil, South Africa, The Wretched of the Earth

Where I Stand 23/05/2016a

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In the wake of the Eugene de Kock incident of the Franschhoek Literary Festival I think an elephant has been left in the room. … [Read more...] about Where I Stand 23/05/2016a

Filed Under: where I stand Tagged With: Eugene de Kock, Franschhoek Literary Festival 2016, South Africa

Where I Stand 23/05/2016

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I remember the violence of the 1990s.  One can hardly forget it – it is still with us today.  What is more I could very well have … [Read more...] about Where I Stand 23/05/2016

Filed Under: where I stand Tagged With: Corruption, Disgrace, J M Coetzee, Jacob Zuma, Judge Jansen, post-colonialism, South Africa

Where I Stand 20/05/16

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I have no time for those people who say literary characters have to be sympathetic ones; Widmerpool, Kurtz, Madam Bovary, Lady … [Read more...] about Where I Stand 20/05/16

Filed Under: where I stand Tagged With: Disgrace, J M Coetzee, South Africa

Where I Stand 12/05/2016

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Having rejoined Facebook the world seems to be a darker place.  I say this because everybody seems to have become more intolerant … [Read more...] about Where I Stand 12/05/2016

Filed Under: where I stand Tagged With: #MatthewTheunissen, Albert Camus, Craft Beer Socialism, Nostalgia, post-colonialism, Racism, Simulacra

Where I Stand 10/05/16

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Some years ago I was sitting in the Kimberly Hotel watching soccer. But my concentration was interrupted when I heard somebody … [Read more...] about Where I Stand 10/05/16

Filed Under: where I stand Tagged With: #MatthewTheunissen, #NtokozoQwabe, #rhodesmustfall, post-colonialism, South Africa

Where I Stand 1/05/16

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VS Naipaul has been a divisive writer and character.  I have not read many of his works and I in fact  know very little about him … [Read more...] about Where I Stand 1/05/16

Filed Under: where I stand Tagged With: EFF, Julius Malema, pied-noirs, post-colonialism, South Africa, White South Africans

Where I Stand 30/04/2016

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I will ignore the politics of the day other than to say that the EFF manifesto launch was perhaps a sign that Zuma has got some of … [Read more...] about Where I Stand 30/04/2016

Filed Under: where I stand Tagged With: EFF, J M Coetzee, Jacob Zuma, South Africa, South African Fiction, South African literature, South African Publishing

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