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At the Heart of Resistance

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Made up of footage gathered in Zimbabwe, At The Heart of Resistance captures the spirit of a unique campaigning group - Women of Zimbabwe Arise - whose clarion call is 'The power of love can conquer the love of power'.

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This is a call for applications for volunteer researchers for the Southern Refugee Legal Aid Network (SLRAN), a new FAHAMU global project.The SLRAN project is co-ordinated by Dr Barbara Harrell-Bond. Find out more (pdf file)

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Where is Uhuru?Issa G. Shivji (2009) Where is Uhuru?.

Neoliberalism promised to correct multiple distortions in the African postcolonial environment, pledging to engineer liberalisation and expand democratic space. But following decades of unrealised reforms, Issa G. Shivji asks Where is Uhuru?

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Africa: Is Africa's education system self destructing?

2008-06-20, Issue 382

http://pambazuka.org/en/category/education/48933

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Many impositions on young people masquerade as concern for their welfare but have tragic consequences. In 2005, a matriculation student from Manxele High School in Eshowe hanged himself after receiving news that he had failed the final examination for a second time. He obviously believed, as many young people are led to do, that without a matriculation certificate he had no future

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