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Daily Monitor Friday January 15 2021 Summary Sadly, we are also recalled those who have left us in the course of the  campaigns, those who are injured, and those who didn’t vote because they were in jail or in some way forced behind. Advertisement The story of South African liberation is a long one. It cuts across many generations, many decades and many characters. It was a liberation that saw it all. There were days when all hope was lost. There were days when hope was the talk of the day. But the liberation movements continued the fight day and night. It was clear from the onset that the...

IT’S Hanukah, the Jewish festival of lights and enlightenment. At this time, we commemorate the Maccabean Revolt — a guerilla struggle by ordinary Jews for their right to self-determination against pressure to assimilate from Greek imperial authorities and the Hellenised priests of their own community.  Of course this story is interpreted in many ways, and people from the whole range of Jewish views, conservative and liberal, reformist and revolutionary, nationalist and internationalist, like the rabbis arguing in ancient times, all assert that it validates their conflicting perspectives...