Two years in office and our used-to-be popular president Jacob Zuma is constantly subjected to criticism from his political counterparts in the media. While former president Thabo Mbeki’s brother, Moeletsi Mbeki, can be forgiven for his ‘disrespectful and disingenuous’ remarks as per ANC spokesperson Jackson Mthembu, Zuma did after all usurp (I mean democratically attain) his brother’s throne and well …
The Department of Media Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand invites you for the first roundtable this semester in the Topics in Media and Cultural Studies series. Please join us this Wednesday 10 August between 14.00-16.00 hrs in CB8 (Central Block, Wits East Campus).
The following speakers will present papers:
Aneesa Hoosen
‘The world sees our shame’: representations of …
Andiswa Makanda reflects on the future of the tripartite alliance between the ANC, SACP and COSATU.
The two-week strike and the events surrounding the strike pose concerns for the relations within the tripartite alliance. The leftist alliance is now at loggerheads with each other on economic policies. The two-week strike was by no means a reflection of the complex, complicated relationship …
