Here is a response to Delphine Pedeboy’s criticisms of the UNHCR published on 13 May 2014.
Tina Ghelli
Opinion | 16 May 2014
The people of Kossovo exist on the margins of unguarded train tracks. Their children are at risk. A lack of service delivery and poor sanitation makes dire conditions worse.
Dudumalingani Mqomboti
Opinion | 14 May 2014
From a perusal of social media and certain sections of the commentariat (on both the Left and Right) one wouldn’t know that an intelligent South African electorate just handed the ANC a convincing victory in an overwhelming peaceful, free, fair and democratic election.
Gilad Isaacs
Opinion | 14 May 2014
Delphine Pedeboy interned with the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) earlier this year. It was a frustrating experience, for her but even more so for the refugees she dealt with.
Delphine Pedeboy
Opinion | 13 May 2014
Some of my friends from university say that they are not going to vote because they do not see what difference the vote will make. They say politicians are corrupt.
Pharie Sefali
Opinion | 7 May 2014
I was born into a new South Africa. At a time when the promise of a country, free from any prejudice, was enough to win the majority vote during the first democratic elections.
Barbara Maregele
Opinion | 7 May 2014
“The Central African Republic stands on the brink of genocide; some would say it has already commenced,” said Archbishop Desmond Tutu in April.
Shireen Mukadam
Opinion | 5 May 2014
The basic demand of May Day was for an eight-hour working day —eight for work, eight for leisure and eight for sleep. It is something we still have to achieve, not just in South Africa, but in many other countries.
Terry Bell
Analysis | 1 May 2014
Never one to disguise her spleen Rhoda Kadalie takes issue with what she alleges is “my temerity to lead the electorate astray”. What Kadalie is taking issue with, but conceals, is I am no lone voice but in partnership with numerous others, of note, in a campaign which calls on all registered voters not to abstain but use their vote on 7 May.
Ronnie Kasrils
Opinion | 1 May 2014
While celebrations took place all over the country this week, some young people in Cape Town’s townships chose to spend Freedom Day another way.
Pharie Sefali
Opinion | 30 April 2014
The stories told by the mothers of three children with disabilities at a series of workshops at the Consitutional Court underline the contrast between constitutional rights and the grim reality.
Muhammad Zakaria Suleman and Tim Fish Hodgson
Opinion | 29 April 2014
The call to deploy the army was heard in response to recent gang violence in Manenberg. But that’s not the solution, argues Adam Armstrong.
Adam Armstrong
Opinion | 29 April 2014
The ongoing and increasingly bitter row within Cosatu boils down, basically, to a constitutional clash.
Terry Bell
Opinion | 29 April 2014
In the Eastern Cape, the Democratic Alliance is in bed with a despot convicted of homicide, attempted murder, kidnapping, arson and a range of other heinous crimes. Mandy de Waal asks whether the opposition is wise to hug a tyrant close to its breast, in the hope of defeating the ANC.
Mandy de Waal
Analysis | 22 April 2014
While the Marikana hearings drift through the doldrums in Rustenberg, at Khayelitsha’s Lookout Hill another commission into police failings is cautiously gathering momentum. The O’Regan-Pikoli Commission of Inquiry is a timely and consolatory reminder of the judicial efficiency South Africa is capable of.
Richard Conyngham
Opinion | 22 April 2014
We are in the midst of all the usual fanfare, the pledges, promises, rows and contradictions that accompany any run-up to a major election. But the scheduled national poll on 7 May seems to be beset by more bickering, bitterness and fragmentation than normal — and this is a clear portent for the future.
Terry Bell
Opinion | 22 April 2014