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CJSR FM88 www.cjsr.com 6 PM Mountain Time When South Africa ’s revolution finally overthrew Apartheid in 1994, few of the revolutionaries knew then that they were about to be betrayed by some of their own leaders, who had been collaborating behind the scenes to create Neo-Apartheid. Under that system, South Africa created the largest middle class on the Afrikan continent, but continued the economic exploitation of the majority of the population. Many have described the current economy as Thatcherite and Neo-liberal. Clearly—and in a lesson that Afrikan-Americans should note very carefully—the complexion of the president says nothing, in and of itself, about the complexion of justice. To discuss the imposition of Neo-Apartheid, we’ll hear today from poet, revolutionary and former political prisoner Dennis Brutus . Brutus was born in Zimbabwe in 1924, and later taught English and Boer Dutch in South Africa for fourteen years. Drawn into the anti-Apartheid movement, he became p...

CJSR FM88 www.cjsr.com 6 PM Mountain Time South African novelist Rozena Maart is an English professor and a practitioner of psychoanalysis. She earned her PhD from the University of Birmingham . In 1987 when she was 24, Maart was nominated for the “Woman of the Year” award hosted in Johannesburg , for her work opposing violence against women and for starting, with four women, the first Black feminist organization in Cape Town , Women Against Repression [W.A.R]. She has been a researcher and writer for the Canadian Panel on Violence against Women. As well, she ‘s won the $10,000 Journey Prize for Best Short Fiction in Canada in 1992, and her writing was selected by the Governor General to be among that of twenty four Canadian writers of African descent whose work is being exhibited across Canada. Last week Rozena Maart and I spoke in Edmonton about a variety of issues, although she was in town to promote her newest book, the novel The Writing Circle . Our conversation began very ...