We’re remembering a true revolutionary.

In southern Africa, Fidel Castro is almost universally seen as a hero. After all it is the Cuban leader who sent his forces to Angola to halt apartheid South Africa.

By now, less than a week before the 2016 local government elections and more than two months since The Conversation had published Co-Pierre Georg’s article, Why Julius Malema’s EFF Doesn’t Offer South Africans a Way Out of Poverty, I had hoped that someone, especially from the EFF, would have engaged him.

Government officials sure love China, so much so that they’ve spent R7.4 million in tax money on more than 40 trips there in the last year alone.

According to almost president Cyril Ramaphosa, not all of South Africa’s 700 SOE’s are performing poorly; that said, government believes that we would perform even better if we were to adopt a Chinese model of state ownership.

It would appear as if the tripartite alliance and specifically the SACP – go figure – wants to have another go at regulating the media.

According to a state-run Chinese newspaper, the slaughter at Charlie Hebdo in Paris is payback for slavery and colonialism — but they make no mention of the Chinese government’s systematic violation of Muslim people’s rights such as banning the Burqa –.