Negative And Positive

“We killed Jesus, we’ll kill you too!”- This was the slogan Israeli settlers shouted when they attacked “internationals” in Tel Rumeida, Hebron at the weekend. One of the settlers hit a Swedish woman, Tove Johansson, with a bottle, cutting her face and breaking her cheekbone. See the linked report. COSATU GS Zwelinzima Vavi gave a lucid input to the Red October Transport Campaign march in Pretoria on Saturday. See the linked item below. From Sunday’s City Press, S’thembiso Msomi gives a relatively informative account of a report on the ANC Gauteng, and supplements it with liberal quotations from ANC Gauteng Provincial Secretary David Makhura. He refrains, for a change, from contradicting Comrade Makhura with anonymous contradictory smears from “sources”. Khathu Mamaila is a City Press columnist. His way of re-writing reality is very direct. For example, he writes of “the sad reality of the common features of American imperialism and Soviet expansionism.” The fact that the Soviet Union never had any overseas military bases nor any “foreign investments” is not of concern to Mamaila. In other words he follows the rule of cheap hacks everywhere: “Never let the facts get in the way of a good story”. Or, as in this case, in the way of a piece of vicious obscurantism. Actually, his target is one he dares not name. His real target is Cuba, the country that selflessly intervened and helped win our freedom, especially at Cuito Cuanavale. See the fourth link below. It would be nice if somebody from the YCL or from the old “combat team” would write to the City Press opposing Mamaila. Click on these links: We will kill you, too - International Solidarity Movement (634 words) COSATU GS Z Vavi, Input to Red October Transport Campaign (1162 words) The life and soul of the party, Sthembiso Msomi, City Press (1206 words) Anti-communism of Khathu Mamaila in City Press (639 words)