Moses Molelekwa, who died under tragic circumstances in 2001 was a brilliant young South African pianist that I had the pleasure of hearing quite a few times in Jozi. Enjoy.
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SA Music Legends: Moses Taiwa Molelekwa #2, posted with vodpod
Another Moses Molelekwa piece.
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Moses Taiwa Molelekwa – jazz genius, posted with vodpod
I think this was Paul Hanmer’s first solo album and it’s a masterpiece.
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Paul Hanmer – Trains to Taung – ‘Prop Hat’, posted with vodpod
A superb South African pianist, composer, arranger and producer.
23 August, 2010 — Free Gaza
Two years ago today, 44 people from 17 countries were on the Mediterranean heading toward Gaza. We were in two dilapidated fishing boats, the seas were rough, most of us were seasick, and all of us were worried that Israeli military warships would prevent us from getting into the illegally blockaded port of Gaza.
Israel had blocked our communications equipment; our two captains, long-time seafarers were working off compass and pieces of paper. At 3:00 pm, we saw the shores of Gaza, and no Israeli war ship was there to prevent us from sailing in to the raucus shouts, applause and joy of 20,000 imprisoned Palestinians waiting on shore, covering every inch of standable ground.
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23 August, 2010 — TheOnlyDemocracy? – Didi Remez’s Coteret blog
Evidence is mounting that the Institute for Zionist Strategies (IZS) — an Israeli NGO at the forefront of an ongoing campaign to purge Israeli Universities of faculty and programs deemed “left-wing” — is a creature of The Hudson Institute, a major Washington based neoconservative think-tank, which played an active role in shaping the Bush administration’s Middle East policies.
Hudson is the primary financial backer of the IZS, providing at least half of the organization’s total reported multi-year funding, but the connection does not end there.
Max Singer, co-founder of the Hudson Institute, its former President and current Senior Fellow, is also the IZS’s Research Director. At least according to his bio on the Hudson website: The IZS site only identifies him as a member of the Advisory Committee. Its 2006 brochure (page 8), however, states that he is a member of the International Board of Governors and as one of the ex-officio members of the Projects Committee, which “as such, are invited to all deliberative sessions and events.” According to the IZS’s verbal report to the Israeli Registrar of Associations for 2008 (the last one filed), Singer’s wife, Suzanne, is one of three members of the NGO’s “Council”, the sovereign decision-making body under Israeli law.
Max Singer
23 August, 2010 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal
Ruth First with Joe Slovo (left).
Zwelinzima Vavi presents the 2010 Ruth First Memorial Lecture, Wits University, Johannesburg, August 17, 2010. Vavi is secretary general of the Congress of South African Trade Unions. Ruth First (May 4, 1925–August 17, 1982) was a South African anti-apartheid activist and communist born in Johannesburg, South Africa. She was killed by the apartheid regime with a parcel bomb in Mozambique in 1982, where she worked in exile from South Africa.
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I will always cherish this moment. It is such an honour to deliver the annual lecture in memory of Ruth First.
The theme is “How policy is affecting the marginalised and its impact on poverty”.
The New Dark Age 