“sooner or later we all sit down to a banquet of consequences”.”
― I Am Pilgrim
― I Am Pilgrim
“Without grace, everyone is running from something.”
― I Am Pilgrim
― I Am Pilgrim
“For the most part Cosatu is able to use its political connections and the labour laws to preserve a highly protected space for a small labour aristocracy.”
― How Long will South Africa Survive? (2nd Edition): The Crisis Continues
― How Long will South Africa Survive? (2nd Edition): The Crisis Continues
“Stealing has carved a special place for itself in South Africa. It joined lying as co-mediator between the powerful and the powerless. Stealing and lying become a principle of social and political interaction when lying is used ... to justify stealing as a form of social and political activism. This”
― How Long will South Africa Survive? (2nd Edition): The Crisis Continues
― How Long will South Africa Survive? (2nd Edition): The Crisis Continues
“The world runs,” Lowell said, “on the fuel of this endless, fathomless misery. People know it, but they don’t mind what they don’t see. Make them look and they mind, but you’re the one they hate, because you’re the one that made them look.”
― We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
― We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
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