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By Opinion
Clyde N. S. Ramalaine
OPINION - Antonio Gramsci, the Italian philosopher, introduced us to the construct of an interregnum, in which he identifies societies periodically in crisis.
The crisis consists of the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum, many morbid symptoms appear. It would be no understatement to assert South Africa details a multiplicity of crises.
Among others, since late 2007, SA evidence a nation in an energy crisis with the phenomenon of load-shedding increasingly becoming the order of the day.
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For those that closely follow the world of chess on Twitter, MrDodgy surely is a well-known name. Constantly sharing jokes related to the world of over-the-board and online chess in a creative and incredibly consistent way has allowed the “man on a horse” to become an active member of the ‘real’ chess world, as a number of elite players not only interact with him online but have also accepted to participate in the “Prestigious MrDodgy Invitational”, whose second edition came to an end on Sunday.
These DVDs are about Understanding Middlegame Strategies. In the first DVD dynamic decisions involving pawns are discussed. The second DVD deals with decision making process concerning practical play.
Imagine the pain of a daughter, whose mother was killed by army bullets in 1971, having to plead her innocence in front of television cameras this year.
That has been the experience of Briege Voyle, one of eight children of Joan Connolly, a woman from Belfast who was killed in the Ballymurphy Massacre 50 years ago. It was only last week that a judge ruled that the 10 people shot by British Army paratroopers, including Mrs Connolly, were “entirely innocent”. They had been killed after an operation was launched against members of the Irish Republican Army.
It is natural and only right that a state should seek to acknowledge both its wrongdoing and responsibility when innocent people are killed by its forces. Yet in Northern Ireland, that is a deeply controversial issue – hence the five-decade wait.
Amidst speculations and a few media reports that Rana Daggubati, Sai Pallavi and Priyamani-starrer Virata Parvam would skip theatrical release and would
The disclosure of the reports highlights concerns that the police spies were overzealous in gathering information about the political and personal activities of activists they had infiltrated. The groups they spied on were predominantly leftwing and progressive.
Their reports were sent back to their supervisors and stored in huge police files. Many were routinely sent on by the police to MI5, the Security Service.
The police spies regularly reported on the bank accounts and jobs of campaigners, along with their home addresses.
Undercover officers have been questioned by the inquiry about the justification for recording the activities of children. Some said it was their job to report anything the police could find significant. They added there were no rules or queries about recording information about children.