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Book Eye on the Money   One Man s Crusade Against Corruption

Download or read book Eye on the Money One Man s Crusade Against Corruption written by Terry Crawford-Brown and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Eye on the Money

Download or read book Eye on the Money written by Terry Crawford-Browne and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The clerk of the court called all rise as Judge Blignaut swept in, dressed in his black gown. He sat down, and moments later we rose again as he swept out, having pronounced the verdict. 'The clerk handed [my lawyer ] a copy of the judgement. I received my own copy by email that afternoon. [My lawyer] commented that it was an outrageous precedent that costs were being awarded against me in an issue brought in the public interest.' The issue was the South African arms deal scandal. The costs were almost a million rand. The plaintiff was Terry Crawford-Browne. As the scandal around the arms deal gathered force during the late 1990s, Crawford-Browne launched a campaign against an armaments acquisition programme that has locked South Africa into twenty years of debt repayment. With no discernible foreign enemy, he asked, why did we need such sophisticated weaponry? The answer was simple: in any arms deal the commissions are huge. With considerable courage, the man who acted for Archbishop Desmond Tutu during the banking sanctions campaign of the 1980s has taken on the post-apartheid government for its betrayal of the struggle against apartheid. In a poignant, telling account he describes the ANC's slide from the moral high ground of the sanctions campaign to the corrupted lowlands where weapons of war are traded.

Book An Anthology of African Cultural Studies  Volume II

Download or read book An Anthology of African Cultural Studies Volume II written by Handel Kashope Wright and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-10-04 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume focuses on the directions that African cultural studies has taken over the years and covers the following central themes: contemporary issues in African cultural studies; Gender and the making of identity; the dual discourses of Afropessimism and Afrofuturism; problematizing the African diaspora and methodology and African cultural studies. The second of two volumes, the book predominantly pulls together a rich reservoir of previously published articles from Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies. Taken together the two volumes re-expose for international readers sets of theories, methodologies and studies that not only have been influenced by global trends, but which themselves have contributed to shaping those trends. While the first volume addressed foundational themes and issues in African cultural studies, this second volume focuses on the directions that African cultural studies is taking; the complex ways in which gender can be seen at work in the making of identity; the juxtaposition of two relatively new themes in African cultural studies, namely Afropessimism and Afrofuturism; the ways in which the presence of continental Africans in the diaspora problematize taken-for-granted conceptions of diaspora and diasporic identity; identifying some of the methodological issues and approaches that have been taken up in African cultural studies work. This book will be a key resource for academics, researchers and advanced students of African cultural studies, media and cultural studies, African studies, history, politics, sociology, and social and cultural anthropology, while also being of interest to those seeking an introduction to the sub-field of African cultural studies.

Book Eye on the Money

Download or read book Eye on the Money written by Terry Crawford-Browne and published by Penguin Random House South Africa. This book was released on 2011-05-27 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The clerk of the court called all rise as judge Blignaut swept in dressed in his black gown. He sat down, and moments later we rose again as he swept out, having pronounced the verdict. 'The clerk handed [my lawyer] a copy of the judgment. I received my own copy by e-mail that afternoon. [My lawyer] commented that it was being awarded against me in an issue brought in the public interest.' The issue was the South African arms deal scandal. The costs were almost a million rand. The plaintiff was Terry Crawford-Browne. As the scandal around the arms deal gathered force during the late 1990s, Crawford-Browne launched a campaign against an armaments acquisition programme that has locked South Africa into twenty years of debt repayment. With no discernible foreign enemy, he asked, why did we need such sophisticated weaponry: The answer was simple: in any arms deal the commisions are huge. With considerable courage, the man who acted for Archbishop Desmond Tutu during the banking sanctions campaign of the 1980s has taken on the post-apartheid government for its betrayal of the struggle against apartheid. In a poignant, telling account he describes the ANC's slide from moral high ground of the sanctions campaign to the corrupted lowlands where weapons of war are traded.

Book Freedom of Information and the Developing World

Download or read book Freedom of Information and the Developing World written by Colin Darch and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2009-12-14 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rather than simply summarising the state of play in African countries and elsewhere, Freedom of Information and the Developing World identifies and makes explicit the assumptions about the citizen’s relationship to the state that lie beneath Freedom of Information (FoI) discourse. The book goes on to test them against the reality of the pervasive politics of patronage that characterise much of African practice. Develops a discourse about the concept of FoI Discussion of the human rights claim appropriates the concepts of Hohfeldian analysis for more radical purposes in support of the idea that the state has a duty to implement FoI practices

Book Kairos  Crisis  and Global Apartheid

Download or read book Kairos Crisis and Global Apartheid written by Allan Aubrey Boesak and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-01-12 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1985, the Kairos Document emerged out of the anti-apartheid struggle as a devastating critique of apartheid and a challenge to the church in that society. This book is a call to discern new moments of crisis, discernment and kairos, and respond with prophetic resistance to global injustice.

Book South Africa and the Global Game

Download or read book South Africa and the Global Game written by Peter Alegi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-18 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Firmly situating South African teams, players, and associations in the international framework in which they have to compete, South Africa and the Global Game: Football, Apartheid, and Beyond presents an interdisciplinary analysis of how and why South Africa underwent a remarkable transformation from a pariah in world sport to the first African host of a World Cup in 2010. Written by an eminent team of scholars, this special issue and book aims to examine the importance of football in South African society, revealing how the black oppression transformed a colonial game into a force for political, cultural and social liberation. It explores how the hosting of the 2010 World Cup aims to enhance the prestige of the post-apartheid nation, to generate economic growth and stimulate Pan-African pride. Among the themes dealt with are race and racism, class and gender dynamics, social identities, mass media and culture, and globalization. This collection of original and insightful essays will appeal to specialists in African Studies, Cultural Studies, and Sport Studies, as well as to non-specialist readers seeking to inform themselves ahead of the 2010 World Cup. This book was published as a special issue of Soccer and Society.

Book South Africa   the Present as History

Download or read book South Africa the Present as History written by John S. Saul and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2014 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new history of South Africa that examines today's post-apartheid society through the lens of its earlier history

Book History of South Africa

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  • Author : Thula Simpson
  • Publisher : Hurst Publishers
  • Release : 2022-08-04
  • ISBN : 1787389219
  • Pages : 667 pages

Download or read book History of South Africa written by Thula Simpson and published by Hurst Publishers. This book was released on 2022-08-04 with total page 667 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: South Africa was born in war, has been cursed by crises and ruptures, and today stands on a precipice once again. This book explores the country’s tumultuous journey from the Second Anglo-Boer War to 2021. Drawing on diaries, letters, oral testimony and diplomatic reports, Thula Simpson follows the South African people through the battles, elections, repression, resistance, strikes, insurrections, massacres, crashes and epidemics that have shaped the nation. Tracking South Africa’s path from colony to Union and from apartheid to democracy, Simpson documents the influence of key figures including Jan Smuts, Nelson Mandela, Steve Biko, P.W. Botha, Thabo Mbeki and Cyril Ramaphosa. He offers detailed accounts of watershed events like the 1922 Rand Revolt, the Defiance Campaign, Sharpeville, the Soweto uprising and the Marikana massacre. He sheds light on the roles of Gandhi, Churchill, Castro and Thatcher, and explores the impact of the World Wars, the armed struggle and the Border War. Simpson’s history charts the post-apartheid transition and the phases of ANC rule, from Rainbow Nation to transformation; state capture to ‘New Dawn’. Along the way, it reveals the divisions and solidarities of sport; the nation’s economic travails; and painful pandemics, from the Spanish flu to AIDS and Covid-19.

Book Die Kaapse bibliotekaris

Download or read book Die Kaapse bibliotekaris written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Issues for Nov. 1957- include section: Accessions. Aanwinste, Sept. 1957-

Book Railway Carmen s Journal

Download or read book Railway Carmen s Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 956 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Congressional Record

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  • Author : United States. Congress
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1972
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1394 pages

Download or read book Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 1394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)

Book Red Notice

Download or read book Red Notice written by Bill Browder and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-10-20 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A true story of high finance, murder, and one man's fight for justice.

Book The Liberator

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  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1908
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 332 pages

Download or read book The Liberator written by and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Unitarian Review

Download or read book The Unitarian Review written by Joseph Henry Allen and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
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  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 618 pages

Download or read book written by and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book South Africa Yearbook

Download or read book South Africa Yearbook written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: