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SA postpones nuclear deal as court case looms
SA postpones nuclear deal as court case looms Environmental lobbyist groups, Earthlife Africa Johannesburg and the South African Faith Communities Environment Institution (SAFCEI) filed an urgent application in court in order to stop a possible intergovernmental framework agreement between the Department of Energy and Russia, China, South Korea and the USA on the country’s planned…
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Letter from the editorial
We welcome you to our new re-launched electronic version of our monthly newsletter. We seek to provide readers with an alternate source of news of local and international events and developments that would not be covered in the mainstream and commercial media. The change in our format has been necessitated by financial considerations and our…
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Passive Resistance of 1946 – forging unity in action
Passive Resistance of 1946 – forging unity in action On June 13, 1946, 70 years ago, a group of Indian people pitched their tents and occupied a piece of land in the middle of an area designated for “white” settlement and from which “non-whites” were prohibited. A resistance Park has been built on this historic…
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Champions of non-violence
Champion of non-violence. His Holiness, the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet (Born 1935): Tibetan spiritual leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama has topped the list of most admired people among Mexican internet users, according to a poll conducted by YouGov, an internet-based market research firm. His Holiness the Dalai Lama was followed by Billionaire Bill…
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Non Violence
The Satyagraha Centenary International Conference on “Globalization of the Gandhian Way: Sociology, Politics and Science of Satyagraha” was held at Jawaharlal Nehru University(JNU) in New Delhi from the 13th to 16th November and in the village Bithiharwa in the Champaran district of Bihar from the 17 to 19 November. Bithiharwa is the place where Gandhiji…
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Why I think we should not spoil our votes.
Why I think we should not spoil our votes. There are many reasons why we should vote and why we should vote intelligently and not spoil our votes or just recklessly cast our vote for any party not knowing what that party stands for or the consequences for supporting a specific party. First and foremost…
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Gandhi Development Trust
Gandhi Development Trust (GDT) promotes a culture of nonviolence through: organising conferences to discuss and debate important issues of policy, methodology, content of education and other critical issues on which it is necessary to have some common understanding and consensus providing non-violence training and tool-kit for learners and teachers organising the Mahatma Gandhi Salt…
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Roots to Fruit: Nonviolence in Action
Roots to Fruits Conference to be held at the Fred Crooke’s Sports Centre, Durban University of Technology from 31 July to 2 August 2011 In 1994 the South African regime transformed from a racially based oppressive regime to a democratically elected inclusive government. This has been described as a miracle; it was built on challenging…
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Salt March 2010 edited
20 minute Edited version of Salt March 2010 {wmv}gandhi walk 20min 2010{/wmv}
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Salt March 2010
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