EVENTS were held across the world today to mark the United Nations International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.
The annual occasion was set up as a reminder of the continuing fight for racial equality and the devastating consequences of racial and ethnic discrimination.
In 1979, the UN general assembly adopted a programme of activities to be undertaken during the second half of the decade for action to fight racism.
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ROGER McKENZIE reports on the west African country, under its new anti-imperialist government, taking up the case for compensation for colonial-era massacres
The charter emerged from a profoundly democratic process where people across South Africa answered ‘What kind of country do we want?’ — but imperial backlash and neoliberal compromise deferred its deepest transformations, argues RONNIE KASRILS
MOLLY DHLAMINI welcomes a Pan-Africanist and Marxist manifesto that charts a path for Africa’s resurgence


