Selim Y Gool responds to Neville Alexander’s speech, ‘South Africa: An unfinished revolution?’, from the perspective of historiography, the current economic crisis and alliance politics.

Walter Rodney's contribution to our understanding and actions for change in the world was cut short, but it was seminal, and we should celebrate as well as mourn his time among us, writes Bob Thomson.

Following Barack Obama’s tough stand against BP for the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, victims of the Bhopal gas disaster are calling on the US president to hold to account the US business interests implicated in the incident. Dow Chemicals, which bought Union Carbide in 2001, refuses to accept its liability for cleaning up the toxic wastes at the closed factory, which is still harming citizens of Bhopal.

Concerned that plans to move the seat of the High Court from Grahamstown to Bisho will make unemployment even worse, Xolelwa Faku calls on the minister of justice to reconsider the decision.