[ Editor’s Update: On 4 August 2018, Avnery suffered a stroke and was hospitalized in a critical condition in Tel Aviv. He died at Ichilov Hospital on 20 August 2018 at the age of 94, less than a month short of his 95th birthday.
Uri with Arafat, sitting with him when Israel was threatening to bomb his headquarters
Despite my years of publishing him on VT, I never had a conversation with him. I did get an email once, after we have put him on the staff page, actually an honorary position as he had not asked for it, and asked us to remove him.
Whereas Mandela judged individual people for what they did, the authors of this curriculum want to teach children to categorize people by their ethnicity and judge them accordingly
Top attractions
At a loss over the holidays? Looking for more than mall-hopping or watching movies? The Joburg Tourism Company has some suggestions.
THE City of Gold has been the heart of South Africa since a rich seam of the shiny metal was found on its western boundary. It is still the country’s financial centre. But there’s more to the city than lucre.
The walkway to the Constitutional CourtIf you want to discover Joburg, there is plenty to keep you entertained. Here are the Johannesburg Tourism Company’s top 10 attractions.
Constitution Hill
Constitution Hill is set on the site of Johannesburg s notorious Old Fort prison complex. It is here that you can trace the story of South Africa’s turbulent, often troubled, past and its extraordinary transition to democracy.