Solidarity — extending the love beyond our borders

MY REFLECTIONS last week about the very individual and personal acts of solidarity that people are doing every day caught the attention of a radio show on SAfm. I was interviewed early on Saturday morning while walking with the Pirates Club in Joburg to raise awareness for breast cancer. It’s a good thing we were done with the hills or radio listeners would have been treated to a lot of huffing and puffing.

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T ended last week's column with a statement that solidarity is about so much more than simply charity - it is a radical expression of love for those who are in distress. The workshop a couple of weeks ago that prompted these reflections also invited community organisers and activists to share what was happening in their countries.

People from Swaziland spoke about the iron grip that Africa’s last absolute monarch has on the country, and how he and his family continue to get obscenely rich even as poverty and unemployment rise.