Lunga ncwana biography of george
•
The ANC for Sale? Money, Morality & Business in South Africa
The African National Congress (ANC) as a liberation movement drew much of its strength from its moral underpinnings as fighting for a just society. However, since its acquisition of political office in 1994, the ANC is widely perceived to have lost its moral compass. This demoralization needs to be located within the structural determinants of the South African transition. Against the background of the dilemmas faced bygd the ANC in its bid to promote its National Democratic Revolution (NDR), this paper explores how the party's need to secure funding has seen it complement official state funding bygd tapping corporate largesse, moving into business and accessing public monies. Meanwhile, the mutual interests of the new political power holders and established business have forged close connections across the public and private divide which at times have bordered on the criminal. Despite the ANC's declared intentions to ad
•
Crony Capitalism 2.0 and the Wretched of South Africa by | Patrick Bond
Do Pretoria and Johannesburg deserve the fate of Sodom and Gomorrah, cities along the ancient Jordan River which were, according to The Book of Genesis, consumed by fire and brimstone as punishment for sinful hedonism?
Etymologically, Sodom – today just a salt pan at the Dead Sea – comes from ‘fortified’ and Gomorrah meant ‘deep’ with ‘copious water.’ So the names match nicely, given the respective catastrophes besetting Pretoria’s police – national commissioners Jackie Selebi and Bheki Cele implicated in corruption with a potential third, Richard Mdluli, nearly there – and Joburg’s goldmines: Acid Mine Drainage; a corrupt Paris firm’s 2001-06 water commercialization (causing a decade’s worth of Soweto community protests); and at the city’s main post-apartheid water source in Lesotho’s dams, notorious eco-destructive graft.
Sodom and Gomorrah initially existed in an Eden-type setting on the Jordan River (this
•
| DE | < 1kg | 3,75 € | Letter |
| DE | < 3kg | 6,27 € | DHL-Package |
| DE | < 5kg | 7,59 € | DHL-Package |
| DE | < 10kg | 9,09 € | DHL-Package |
| DE | < 20kg | 13,46 € | DHL-Package |
| DE | < 31kg | 15,98 € | DHL-Package |
The shipping costs calculated for shipping within Germany refer to standard shipping forms such as
• book shipment
• letter
• Package
• package
not, however, the forms of dispatch subject to surcharges, such as express dispatch or messenger delivery. If express delivery should ever be necessary, please let us know immediately with your order. We will take care of it immediately and instead of a lump sum, we will charge you the pure costs of the desired form of shipment.