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The kaiser and the paperweight: how Cecil Rhodes helped inspire the first world war
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Editor’s note: Serena Crawford has now limited access to her Instagram account, so the embedded Instagram posts in this piece no longer work. Also, please note that The Daily Vox contacted Ms Crawford for a response to this piece on Friday 18 December.Â
Interest in a certain Serena Crawford sparked after she posted a photo of the Mount Nelson hotel in Cape Town. She described how she was on her way to the #ZumaMustFall protest, and spotted Hollywood actor Jude Law at the luxurious hotel. But PHILLIP OWIRA took an extensive look at her Instagram feed and found even better results.
Our book
Rogues’ Gallery shows that corruption in South Africa has existed for at least as long as our history has been recorded. By focusing on a dozen skelms – starting with Willem Adriaan van der Stel in 1700 and ending with Jacob Zuma – we discovered that corruption is part of our national DNA. (On the positive side, so is whistle-blowing.)
Given that the plunder has, at times, been of biblical proportions, we thought it might be useful to come up with 10 Commandments of Corruption.
Thou shalt gift thyself land and a house at the government’s expense
With Nkandla and its firepool so fresh in our minds, it’s easy to fall into the trap of thinking that JZ’s KwaZulu-Natal bolthole was somehow unique. Sadly, all 13 chapters of our book feature at least one government-funded personal pleasure dome.
Digging up the past in a pandemic: South African mining industry must learn from its mistakes Richard Cramer
Dr Richard Cramer is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the SARChI, Research Chair: Mineral Law in Africa, at the University of Cape Town.
The Covid-19 pandemic is not the first time South Africa’s mining industry has had to grapple with the outbreak of disease. However, as an industry that has traditionally put profits ahead of the wellbeing of its employees, it has a poor record of dealing with past pandemics.
With South Africa having emerged from a deadly second wave of Covid-19 in recent months, and while more than 450,000 workers returned to the mines, it is vital to shine a light on this history. As will become clear, benevolence has never characterised the mining industry’s response to public health crises that threaten its employees. It is important to bear this historical context in mind when evaluating the contemporary mining industry’s response to C
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