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The community of Kabwe, Zambia, still awaits justice
It is almost a full year since the South African Supreme Court held a hearing as to whether the 140,000 class action against Anglo American should go ahead. The community of Kabwe, Zambia, location of the former Broken Hill Mine, owned by Anglo American, still waits for justice.
Geschichtspolitik: Die Walhalla – Deutschlands steinernes Gedächtnis
Grellweiß gleißen in der Herbstsonne die 52 dorischen Marmorsäulen der Ruhmeshalle. Der Besucher wähnt sich vor Athens Akropolis. Doch das erhabene Monument steht auf dem Bräuberg in Donau-stauf bei Regensburg. Mit diesem klassizistischen Bauwerk in Gestalt eines von Säulen umgebenen antiken Tempels entstand im Auftrag des bayerischen Königs Ludwig I. eines der bedeutendsten deutschen Nationaldenkmäler.
Smuggler Kingpin
Smuggler Kingpin is a fast-moving political thriller with something more serious on its mind. Set against the turbulent backdrop of modern southern Africa, it mixes organised crime, political corruption, espionage and old-fashioned adventure into a story that often feels uncomfortably close to current day headlines. At the centre of the novel is Sidney Reilly, a wealthy and well-connected Zimbabwean businessman whose respectable public face conceals a much darker operation.
EXTRACT | ‘Smuggler Kingpin’: Peter Hain delivers underworld thrills and mafia ties
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‘Protest is a precious democratic freedom – we should defend it’
This week the Crime and Policing Bill will reach its last stages in Parliament, and with it a proposal to significantly restrict the fundamental right to protest in this country. Along with others, I spoke out strongly against this new clause when it was first put forward by the Government in the Lords. It would grant yet more powers to police to restrict and effectively ban repeat protests on the basis of their ‘cumulative disruption’. These plans should give us all cause for alarm.
1848: Ferdinand Freiligrath: Der Trompeter der Revolution
Der deutsche Revolutionsdichter Ferdinand Freiligrath. Foto: IMAGO / Zoonar Kultur | | Autor: Peter Hain | IHR DIGITALER ZUGANG. Alle Artikel auf JF online frei Die JF schon jeden Mittwoch als E-Paper und via App Frei mitdiskutieren im Kommentarbereich der JF Sie sind bereits Digital-Abonnent? Hier anmelden. Unabhängigen Journalismus unterstützen! Unabhängigen Journalismus unterstützen! Der deutsche Revolutionsdichter Ferdinand Freiligrath.
EXTRACT | Peter Hain: How liberation movements, once in power, fall into corruption
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'Starmer and Reeves must break with Treasury orthodoxy to fund Britain’s security'
Compared with July 2024 when Keir Starmer won power, the world has changed dramatically, and his government must do so as well to finance extra UK defence spending. Donald Trump’s unreliability and military adventurism, together with Vladimir Putin’s imperialist attacks, have left Britain and our European NATO allies desperately playing catch-up.
Punk and Protest — Chartist Original
Sunday, April 30th, 1978, standing on the stage of the Carnival Against the Nazis in East London’s Victoria Park, hardly believing what I was seeing. Thousands were streaming in. And they kept coming until they were as far as I could see. Punk bands I’d hardly heard of were playing in the largest ever fusion of music and politics, organised by Rock Against Racism and the Anti-Nazi League – the moment we fully realised we’d created a mass popular anti-racist movement.
PETER HAIN | The rotten heirloom that greedy liberators embrace
Social media posts often claim corruption is intrinsic to black majorityrule, when it was endemic under whitecolonialism and occurs under white majorityrule too. Another common refrain is that though the apartheid regime may have been “brutal” it was at least “honest”. Actually, apartheid-entrenched corruption simply continued after the transition to democracy in 1994.
Liberation and Corruption: Why Freedom Movements Fail – with Peter Hain | King's College London
Veteran activist and politician Peter Hain explores a question that has haunted him for decades: why are liberation and independence movements so often betrayed when their leaders get into government? In his new book, Liberation and Corruption: Why Freedom Movements Fail, Hain examines why movements born from ideals of justice and freedom often succumb to bad governance and corruption once in power.
Why Freedom Movements Fail
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We voted for and against the ban on Palestine Action. Now we have a plan to end this mess
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We voted for and against the ban on Palestine Action. Now we have a plan to end this mess
Hundreds of protesters with placards stating ‘I oppose genocide, I support Palestine Action’, Parliament Square, London, 9 August 2025. Photograph: Vuk Valcic/SOPA Images/Shutterstock Is terrorism really a vicar with a peaceful placard? As parliamentarians who are passionate about democracy and civil liberties, we know that both are under threat. A growing number of organisations encourage violence and intimidation in pursuit of political aims.
Lord Hain statement on Palestine Action in the House of Lords — Chartist Original
Having for nearly ten years consistently voted with my Party, sometimes late into the night, as a Labour Peer, I could not do so on a motion in early July proscribing Palestine Action as a “terrorist” group. First to be absolutely clear, I support the right of Israel to exist and Israelis to enjoy full security. I am also a long-standing supporter of Palestinian rights to self-determination in their own state.
We have been warned
Lord Peter Hain is a former Labour Cabinet Minister and anti-apartheid campaigner whose memoir A Pretoria Boy: South Africa’s ‘Public Enemy Number One’ is published by Jonathan Ball, as are his three anti-corruption, pro-wildlife thrillers The Rhino Conspiracy (2020) and The Elephant Conspiracy (2022) and The Lion Conspiracy (2024). President Donald Trump’s tariffs and American nationalism have thrown the world upside down, his antics inviting Kris Kristofferson’s lyric: ‘A walking contradiction.
The right of Afghani women and girls to play cricket
OPEN LETTER An open letter from the Right Honourable Lord Hain to Pholetsi Moseki, the chief executive officer of Cricket South Africa. Dear Mr Moseki, I am writing to ask that Cricket South Africa and its representative in the International Cricket Council (ICC) challenge the ban on women’s and girls’ cricket in Afghanistan. Don't want to see this? Remove ads And that this is done before South Africa plays against Afghanistan in the ICC Champions Trophy at Karachi, on 21 February 2025.
Jacket Notes | Peter Hain on his book ‘The Lion Conspiracy’
14 July 2024 - 00:00 Just R20 for the first month. Support independent journalism by subscribing to our digital news package. A future without the iconic “King of the Jungle” is no fantasy. A century ago there were 100,000 lions roaming across Africa. Now it’s just 20,000. Already extinct in 30 African countries, and forecast to be extinct right across the continent by 2050. Unless we take serious action. But that is not only about properly resourcing and backing wildlife conservationists.
Tory cuts and still more to come — Chartist
Rishi Sunak bringing “the architect of austerity”, David Cameron back in from the cold as his Foreign Secretary made a mockery of his claim a month earlier to be a leading change-maker. Jeremy Hunt’s November 2023 autumn economic statement confirmed such scepticism by paying for tax cuts with five-year real terms cut in public spending and by slashing public investment – that return to post-2010 Tory austerity confirmed by his March 2024 budget.
Rishi Sunak’s government would ban the very boycotts that helped to end apartheid
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Britain’s Budget - not even a brighter shade of fail
Lord Peter Hain is a former British Cabinet Minister and anti-apartheid campaigner whose memoir, ‘A Pretoria Boy: South Africa’s ‘Public Enemy Number One’, is published by Jonathan Ball. Tory right-wingers were clamouring for Finance Minister Jeremy Hunt to give the economy a bounce. But the only bounce he delivered was a post-dated cheque to pay for his tax proposals.
Peter Hain | Why liberation movements fail when they get into power
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'It's vital. Tory attacks are desperate'
Comedian Jasper Carrott used to tell a great joke about the “awesome speed” of the lightweight three-wheeler car, the Reliant Robin, as it “hurtled downhill early each morning, slipstreaming a milk float”. A fair description of the UK economy since the 2008 global financial crisis, with GDP growth stalled by Tory austerity, and the IMF now expecting it during 2023 and 2024 to be slower than all the G7 major economies except Germany, at about 0.5 per cent per year. More Benny Hill than Graham Hill.
Recent history means South Africa must back this anti-corruption court
Recent history means South Africa must back this anti-corruption court Richard Goldstone is drafting a treaty for such a body, and his home country has every reason to support its implementation 28 January 2024 - 00:00 By Peter Hain After the infamous state capture decade and the failure to bring such looters as the Gupta brothers to justice, surely it is a no-brainer for South Africa to lead the campaign to create an international anti-corruption court (IACC)?..
Israel and its allies must face facts: peace talks are the only way forward, and they will have to include Hamas
Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images After the Hamas terror of 7 October and Benjamin Netanyahu’s horrific retaliation in Gaza, some long overdue truths need stating. First, Israel is not going to “destroy Hamas”, as its leaders promise – not even by destroying Gaza. Although Israel is damaging Hamas militarily, maybe significantly, with many of its tunnels eliminated and its fighters fleeing, Hamas is a movement and an ideology that, in many respects, Netanyahu’s extremism helped to promote.
Corruption is a cancer that will turn SA into a failed state
STOP THE ROT OP-ED Just as State Capture was not all down to dodgy politicians, South Africa will not emerge from its morass of corruption, dysfunctional public services, cronyism, crime, poverty, low to negative economic growth and high unemployment unless everyone stands up to be counted and demands: ‘Never Again’. This is an edited version of Lord Hain’s speech to the SA Government Anti-Corruption Conference held in Pretoria on Friday 8 December 2023.
Hunt Budget realities — Chartist
When Rishi Sunak made David Cameron Foreign Secretary, critics noted that bringing ‘the architect of austerity’ in from the cold was at odds with the Prime Minister’s claim at the 2023 Tory party conference to be leading change and ending a thirty-year status quo. Jeremy Hunt’s autumn statement adds weight to the criticism.
By-election blues for Sunak’s Conservatives bodes ill for the party in 2024
Lord Peter Hain is a former British Cabinet Minister and anti-apartheid campaigner whose memoir, ‘A Pretoria Boy: South Africa’s ‘Public Enemy Number One’, is published by Jonathan Ball. The startling loss by Rishi Sunak’s Conservatives at the polls this week – in supposedly rock-solid Tory constituencies – does not bode well for the party in next year's UK general election especially as Keir Starmer’s Labour Party makes the most of the Tories’ fumbles in recent years.
Rupert Murdoch made his own rules - what is the media mogul’s real legacy?
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Fox networks brought US primetime up to date … but upended TV news The imperial doings of Rupert Murdoch over the past 70 years make for a story often told. Orthodoxy tells us that to grow and protect his empire he needed the support of political leaders, and to build their power some of those leaders needed the pulpits provided by the outlets that he controlled.
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Christopher Campbell obituary
My friend Christopher Campbell, who has died aged 87, was a businessman, philanthropist and expert networker who made many friends in business, politics, arts and the civil service over his long career in retail and banking. The soprano Lucy Crowe, who sang the aria Lascia Ch’io Pianga from Handel’s Rinaldo at his funeral, was one beneficiary of his philanthropy, having been financially supported by him through the British Youth Opera.
Time for South Africans to rise up again and demand change — Chartist
With South Africa’s ruling ANC government sadly riddled with corruption from top to bottom, Neil Aggett serves as a reminder of the values of the freedom struggle the party once led so nobly. He lived according to Nelson Mandela’s guidance: “What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived.
Michael Parkinson was a radical anti-racist as well as a national treasure
Overlooked in the blanket coverage of Michael Parkinson’s death are the radical views he expressed well before became a national treasure for his much-loved BBC celebrity interviews. His formative socialist years were in the Yorkshire town of Barnsley, the son of a miner.
Michael Parkinson was a radical anti-racist as well as a national treasure
Overlooked in the blanket coverage of Michael Parkinson’s death are the radical views he expressed well before became a national treasure for his much-loved BBC celebrity interviews. His formative socialist years were in the Yorkshire town of Barnsley, the son of a miner.
Michael Parkinson was a radical anti-racist as well as a national treasure
Overlooked in the blanket coverage of Michael Parkinson’s death are the radical views he expressed well before became a national treasure for his much-loved BBC celebrity interviews. His formative socialist years were in the Yorkshire town of Barnsley, the son of a miner.
International Anti-Corruption Court needed for global white-collar crime
Lord Peter Hain is a former British Cabinet Minister and anti-apartheid campaigner whose memoir, ‘A Pretoria Boy: South Africa’s ‘Public Enemy Number One’, is published by Jonathan Ball. Kleptocracies have ravaged their populations for far too long, with corrupt leaders looting public funds for personal gain and thrusting their people deeper into poverty.
The time for instituting a new global corruption court is now
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The time for instituting a new global corruption court is now
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Botswana’s human rights record being tarnished by its government
Botswana’s human rights record being tarnished by its government 04 June 2023 - 00:00 By PETER HAIN Botswana has for decades enjoyed an enviable human rights record, by the standards of its neighbours, enshrined and protected by a bill of rights in its constitution which was enacted in 1966, when the country gained independence. ..
'The Only White' - a play that dramatically recalls the trauma of apartheid - New African Magazine
A play in London about the only White political activist to be hanged for his part in the resistance to South Africa’s apartheid regime (John White, pictured above) stirs up deep emotions for Peter Hain, who recalls his family’s involvement in the struggle. It was quite something viewing a cathartic event 60 years ago from my South African childhood re-enacted in a stunning new play, The Only White.
OPINIONISTA: Putting an end to kleptocracy and recovering the assets stolen by corrupt leaders
Lord Hain is a former Secretary of State for Northern Ireland. The anti-apartheid campaigner is the Honorary Vice-President of Action for Southern Africa. In this speech to the UK House of Lords on Tuesday 9 May, Lord Hain urged the British government to back the establishment of an international anti-corruption court to prosecute crooked leaders of countries that do not enforce their own anti-corruption laws.
OPINIONISTA: Lessons for Africa from Brexit, the UK’s monumental act of self-harm
A long-standing commercial truth is that it’s optimal to trade with those closest to you. It’s common sense really — the costs of moving goods are lower, synergies are better, the economies of scale kick in and so on. Africa, for example, is banking a great deal on the benefits that the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) agreement will bring to growth and prosperity.
What Africa should learn from Brexit
It is increasingly evident that leaving the European Union – the world’s richest single market – was a monumental act of self-harm for the UK. African countries should take heed and cooperate to ensure the success of the African Continental Free Trade Area AfCFTA, argues Lord Peter Hain. A long-standing commercial truth is that it’s optimal to trade with those closest to you.
Thanks to Brexit, 25 years on, the Good Friday Agreement faces its toughest test
The Guardian By Peter Hain When those bitter blood enemies, Ian Paisley and Martin McGuinness, finally agreed to share power amicably together in 2007, it was one of those itll never happen moments. The 2007 agreement I helped negotiate under Tony Blair ended a five-year suspension of the Northern Ireland assembly.
OPINIONISTA: Bain mistakes ‘can never be repeated’ — SA needs accountability, not whitewashed PR statements
Lord Hain is a former Secretary of State for Northern Ireland. The anti-apartheid campaigner is the Honorary Vice-President of Action for Southern Africa. The UK government announced in parliament last month that it was lifting a ban – more than two years early- it had imposed on the global consultancy firm Bain & Co last year. The ban on doing business with the UK government was because of its complicity in State Capture in South Africa.
OPINIONISTA: Stop sleeping, wake up and act against corruption
This is a text of a lecture at the University of Cape Town on Saturday, 11 March 2023 SARS wouldn’t have been disabled without Bain & Co infamously and unlawfully carrying out president Zuma’s personal instructions at 17 one-to-one meetings. Nor could the Guptas have money laundered billions out of the country without global banks like HSBC, Standard Chartered and Baroda enabling them to do so.
PETER HAIN: Wake up SA, and act against corruption
Blame for the infamous “Zupta” state capture decade has mainly focused on a corrupt president and his cronies. But SA and global businesses were culpable too. It took, and still takes, two to tango. The SA Revenue Service wouldn’t have been disabled without Bain & Co infamously and unlawfully carrying out then president Jacob Zuma’s personal instructions at 17 one-to-one meetings.
South Africa: Peter Hain - Neil Aggett Died Fighting Apartheid - South Africa's Rulers Have Betrayed the Struggle
South Africa: Peter Hain - Neil Aggett Died Fighting Apartheid - South Africa's Rulers Have Betrayed the Struggle analysis By Peter Hain Neil Aggett, the trade unionist and anti-apartheid activist who died in detention at the hands of police 41 years ago, was one of very few white South Africans who actively fought apartheid. He was only 29 when he died. He came from a community enjoying one of the most privileged existences on earth, with a black servant class attending to their every need.
Peter Hain: Neil Aggett died fighting apartheid - South Africa's rulers have betrayed the struggle
Neil Aggett, the trade unionist and anti-apartheid activist who died in detention at the hands of police 41 years ago, was one of very few white South Africans who actively fought apartheid. He was only 29 when he died. He came from a community enjoying one of the most privileged existences on earth, with a black servant class attending to their every need.
Peter Hain: Neil Aggett died fighting apartheid – South Africa's rulers have betrayed the struggle
Neil Aggett, the trade unionist and anti-apartheid activist who died in detention at the hands of police 41 years ago, was one of very few white South Africans who actively fought apartheid. He was only 29 when he died. He came from a community enjoying one of the most privileged existences on earth, with a black servant class attending to their every need.
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