I am not free of the fear of wondering about the space and time we are living through. I share a lot of my private self on Instagram and Facebook. I use mostly Twitter
Like my friend and fellow broadcaster Redi Tlhabi, I may as well have a permanent table at Tasha’s. Yet today, for example, as I talked literature with a friend at Tasha’s in Rosebank, it occurred to me thatThis could be a brazen act of everyday South African criminality or a response to my work. This latest attack is presumed by many to be a continuation of the hunting down of Salman Rushdie by those who deemed his work blasphemous and deserving of lethal retaliation.
Countries do not become anti-democratic overnight. A warning sign, he argued, is the use of violence by the state to suppress political opposition and quell perceived threats to incumbency power in civil society and social movements.