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Defend Truth

Terry Bell

Terry Bell is a journalist, commentator and author specialising in political and economic analysis, and labour matters.

Latest Work

Terry Bell

20 March 2024

Without the media we would probably never have known the real truth about Sharpeville

4 min

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Reflections of a Wayward Boy: I still live in hope for South Africa – but for the next generation

12 December 2022

Reflections of a Wayward Boy: I still live in hope for South Africa – but for the next generation

5 min

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Reflections of a Wayward Boy – plenty of excitement in the air, but no revolution in the offing

11 October 2022

Reflections of a Wayward Boy – plenty of excitement in the air, but no revolution in the offing

5 min

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What happened at Numsa shows SA faces dangerous threats – even potential civil war

30 July 2022

What happened at Numsa shows SA faces dangerous threats – even potential civil war

5 min

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Terry Bell

21 June 2022

There is an alternative to our current form of democracy and it can work

4 min

10

Reflections of a Wayward Boy: The bitter battle to free Moses Mayekiso

19 June 2022

Reflections of a Wayward Boy: The bitter battle to free Moses Mayekiso

7 min

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Reflections of a Wayward Boy: Squatting on Hampstead Heath

11 May 2022

Reflections of a Wayward Boy: Squatting on Hampstead Heath

5 min

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Reflections of a Wayward Boy: Setting up the primary division of Solomon Mahlangu Freedom College – chronicle of an ANC decline foretold

6 April 2022

Reflections of a Wayward Boy: Setting up the primary division of Solomon Mahlangu Freedom College – chronicle of an ANC decline foretold

6 min

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Muizenberg Post Office closure shuts the door on desperate residents — and a piece of history

1 March 2022

Muizenberg Post Office closure shuts the door on desperate residents — and a piece of history

3 min

4

Reflections of a Wayward Boy: The lows and highs of a scribe – from Pinochet’s Chile to Dr Seuss and Sir Edmund Hillary

9 February 2022

Reflections of a Wayward Boy: The lows and highs of a scribe – from Pinochet’s Chile to Dr Seuss and Sir Edmund Hillary

5 min

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Reflections of a Wayward Boy: A delicate flower felled in a sumo salt sacrifice

1 December 2021

Reflections of a Wayward Boy: A delicate flower felled in a sumo salt sacrifice

5 min

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Reflections of a Wayward Boy: Jumping the border into exile, and an uncertain future

10 November 2021

Reflections of a Wayward Boy: Jumping the border into exile, and an uncertain future

5 min

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