SIKONATHI MANTSHANTSHA: We must all defy injustice
All patriotic citizens, whatever their trade, are duty-bound to push back
Duma Ndlovu wrote an important article in City Press on Sunday about the role some journalists played during the tumultuous apartheid years in the 1970s. That environment and time has many parallels with today. Journalists and other people with a sense of justice found themselves being forced to do a bit more than just their jobs. Racial oppression and state violence against the people were the injustices of that time. Corruption (in the public and private sectors) and lawlessness are today’s. Blatant looting of public resources is today’s state-sponsored violence, similar to the random beatings and arrests of yesteryear’s citizens. All patriotic citizens, whatever their trade, are duty-bound to push back. Ndlovu writes that he was part of a group of journalists "that was constantly hounded and continuously arrested for our provocative type of journalism". Among them he mentions such illustrious journalists as Joe Thloloe, Thami Mazwai and Peter Magubane, who had nasty encounters wi...
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