by commonwealth-oral-history-project | Dec 12, 2013 | Apartheid, Blog, Human Rights, United Kingdom
By Dr. Sue Onslow, Senior Research Fellow, ICwS In the cascade of tributes to Nelson Mandela following his death last Thursday, personal friends, liberation fighters in the struggle, fellow politicians and commentators have addressed Mandela’s complex personality and...
by commonwealth-oral-history-project | Nov 14, 2013 | Blog, CHOGM, Commonwealth Secretariat, Diplomacy, Human Rights, India, Queen, Rhodesia (see also Zimbabwe), South Africa, Sri Lanka, Zimbabwe (see also Rhodesia)
by Dr. Sue Onslow The disastrous decision for Sri Lanka to host the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting, taken in 2009 and reaffirmed at the 2011 Perth CHOGM, has come back to bite the Commonwealth on the backside. The Canadian and Indian heads of Government have...
by commonwealth-oral-history-project | Oct 3, 2013 | Blog, CHOGM, Human Rights, United Kingdom
Political commentators have been left scratching their heads today with the sudden news on Gambian state radio, informing the Gambian public that that the country was pulling out of the Commonwealth with immediate effect. Gambia came off the Commonwealth Ministerial...
by commonwealth-oral-history-project | Jul 30, 2013 | Blog
By Dr. Sue Onslow, Senior Research Fellow, ICwS It’s election time again in Zimbabwe, with the nation going to the polls on July 31st. Elections have a pretty combustible track record in the Zimbabwe political space. So much of today’s vociferous media coverage and...
