African Liberation Day marks the founding of the Organization of African Unity in 1963. While the idea of "liberation" has since been removed in letter, and even in spirit, from official commemorations of the day, radical forces have held onto it in their fight against capitalism. Tanupriya Singh reports for Peoples Dispatch.
The Platform to Protect Whistleblowers in Africa and partners is holding a Whistleblower Protection Week; Daily Maverick is hosting a webinar on ‘My Vote Counts: Internal democracy in the ANC and the party’s upcoming elective conference’; and the Helen Suzman Memorial Lecture is taking place at.
At the end of apartheid in 1994, only 36 percent of households in South Africa were electrified, with almost all white households having electric power