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Car and Driver
05-07-2025
- Automotive
- Car and Driver
View Photos of the 1982 De Lorean Comparison Test
Read the full review When a car as seemingly revolutionary as the De Lorean appears, it's no surprise that the whole world wanders over to size it up.
The Herald
23-05-2025
- Politics
- The Herald
ANC struggle hero Gertrude Shope dies peacefully at home, aged 99
ANC stalwart Gertrude Shope has died at the age of 99. According to the party, Shope, also known as MaShope, died peacefully at her Gauteng home on Thursday morning. 'A lifelong revolutionary, MaShope was a leader of profound discipline, courage and humility. From her early activism to the dawn of democracy, she served the Struggle with unmatched commitment in the underground, in exile and in the democratic parliament. 'As former president of the ANC Women's League, head of the ANC Women's Section in exile, and a member of the ANC NEC, she played a pivotal role in shaping the political direction of our movement and the emancipation of women in South Africa and beyond,' said the organisation on Thursday. Shope, who was one of the oldest members of the party, is a former trade unionist and the first Women's League president. Shope had been exiled in countries like Botswana, Tanzania, Czechoslovakia, Zambia and Nigeria, where she fought for the rights of workers and women. 'Even in retirement, MaShope exudes an air of majesty and dignity as a sage of the age, belonging to the same illustrious historical galaxy of revolutionaries that includes Charlotte Maxeke, Ruth First, Fatima Meer, Helen Joseph, Sophia de Bruyn, Ruth Mompati, Lillian Ngoyi and many more,' wrote former minister Naledi Pandor in celebrating Shope's life a few years ago. Shope was born in 1925 in Johannesburg and grew up in Zimbabwe. She was 29 when she joined the ANC, leaving her work as a teacher in protest against Bantu education. As part of the Federation of South African Women, she fought to make women's struggles part of the wider Struggle for a free society. SowetanLIVE
Washington Post
19-05-2025
- Politics
- Washington Post
‘The Afterlife of Malcolm X' looks at how we've remembered an icon
In January 1999, the U.S. Postal Service issued a stamp bearing the likeness of Malcolm X, acknowledging the broad popular appeal of the late Muslim minster. In a news release, the bureaucrats who had approved the stamp held Malcolm up as a man who, late in life, had turned from hatred to espouse 'a more integrationist solution to racial problems.' Many of the historians who had studied him and activists who had shaped their politics in his image, however, dismissed this characterization as not just untrue but a Faustian bargain — a dumbing down of Malcolm's true legacy in exchange for a little respectability. A representative rebuke came from one reader in the pages of The Washington Post. 'By all means let us honor Malcolm X,' he argued, 'but in doing so let us be clear about who and what he was. He was not a liberal or a conservative, a Democrat or a Republican. He was a revolutionary and an internationalist.' Men and women like that letter writer — veterans of the Organization of Afro-American Unity, doyens of the Free South Africa Movement, gang truce activists and the like — were determined to remind the country that Malcolm justified their commitments and their organizing in the here and now.
Times
14-05-2025
- Politics
- Times
José Mujica obituary: idiosyncratic president of Uruguay
Before José Mujica became president of Uruguay in 2010 he was best known as a former guerrilla leader who drove a battered 1987 powder-blue Volkswagen Beetle, grew chrysanthemums and lived in a dilapidated single-storey farmhouse 20 minutes outside Montevideo with his wife, also a former revolutionary, and Manuela, their three-legged yappy black mongrel. Little changed in office. Known as 'the most humble president in the world', Mujica turned the 100-year-old Estévez presidential palace into a museum, crawled to work in his Beetle and donated 90 per cent of his £7,100-a-month salary to social projects. 'I am rich here,' he told a journalist, tapping his chest as he brought out two tatty cushions and plonked them on a pair of rusty garden chairs. Those who considered
