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My paper described earlier is appearing as a CSSR working paper. Attached for those interested.
Networks of influence: a theoretical review and proposed approach to AIDS treatment activism

I sent this letter to Business Day today. For more on the delegation, see their website.
Dear Sir
As reported in your newspaper, a group of concerned South Africans are travelling to Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories next week in order to highlight the intolerable conditions created by the Occupation. The composition of [...]

I submitted this paper to the journal Social Movement Studies (available through IngentaConnect) today. I can provide copies of the draft to anyone who is interested.
Abstract
The topic of AIDS activism cuts across disciplines, is complex, under-theorised and does not lend itself to neat theoretical explication. Furthermore, the story of the relationship between [...]

i gave a presentation on my research on transnational networks in aids activism at the scholar ship’s workshop on aids in south africa and india on friday. I attach a pdf of the presentation here: scholar-ship-seminar-29-02-2008.pdf.

This is a short review of Padraig O’Malley’s Shades of Difference that I did for the latest issue of Equal Treatment (the TAC’s magazine):
In his foreword to Shades of Difference, former President Nelson Mandela says “Mac put the struggle for the freedom of South Africa above everything in his life.” Whatever flaws Mac Maharaj may [...]

I presented a paper at the Philosophical Society of Southern Africa’s annual conference at the University of Pretoria under the above title. The abstract below and the paper attached.
Abstract
This paper argues that there is a tradition of philosophical critique which starts with Hegel’s dialectics and was developed, each time in a slightly different direction, by [...]

I presented the Centre for Social Science Research’s weekly seminar yesterday. I looked at some of the theoretical considerations in the research i am currently conducting on aids activism. My presentation was entitled Local contexts and global networks in Aids treatment activism and is available here. It is very cryptic. I will post a draft [...]

Abstract
Two major developments of the last two decades have radically undermined traditional justifications of leftist politics: the failure of twentieth century `socialist’ experiments, and what might be termed the de-essentialising movement in contemporary philosophy. However, the social injustices that animated revolutionary thinkers in many respects remain, and some have arguably worsened in the era [...]

I have posted a video of Zackie’s short speech at the PAVN launch in Manenberg on the PAVN website. I also created a Youtube channel. More to come…

With Zackie Achmat
Every citizen, especially citizens who are ANC supporters and voters, those who have no interest in rising in the party hierarchy, have a duty to speak in public about policy, ideas and programmes. Such speech must be critical for criticism is the definitive element of loyalty.
It has become customary for senior members of [...]