HOW THE PEOPLE OF SOUTH AFRICA WERE MISLED AND CAN RISE AGAIN

HOW THE PEOPLE OF SOUTH AFRICA WERE MISLED AND CAN RISE AGAIN

23 November 2017

Returning to South Africa, John Pilger delivers an inaugural lecture in Cape Town in memory of the anti-apartheid campaigner, Abdulhay Ahmed Saloojee. He asks why the struggle for freedom has yet to be won, why a form of apartheid still rules and why this oppression has become a model for much of the world in the 21st century.

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You can also watch John Pilger's 1999 film Apartheid Did Not Die on this website.

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The salacious demolition job on Martha Gellhorn cannot obscure a remarkable human being The other day, the Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism was awarded in honour of the great American reporter who lived in this country until she died three years ago. Gellhorn adhered to no consensus of the kind that shapes and distorts so much journalism. She regarded governments, indeed all authority, as her professional enemies, and their propaganda as "official drivel".

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