On 28 June 1984 a parcel bomb sent by the apartheid security police exploded in an apartment building in Lubango, Angola, killing 36-year-old Jeanette Schoon and her six-year-old daughter Katryn. The Schoons were members of the revolutionary underground, exiled from South Africa and committed to both the African National Congress and to socialism. What many political activists had feared or suspected at the time was confirmed during the 1990s Truth and Reconciliation Commission: the bomb t...

Revisits the work of Rick Turner, a South African political theorist, and addresses contemporary debatesRick Turner was a South African academic and anti-apartheid activist who rebelled against the apartheid state at the height of its power. For this he was assassinated in 1978, at just 32 years of age, but his life and work are testimony to the power of philosophical thinking for humans everywhere. Turner chose to live freely in an unfree time and argued for a non...

Billy Everrett, Besitzer des Tauchshops „Big Island Dive" und ehemaliger Sprengstoffexperte der Marine, hat sein Herz verschlossen. Liebe? Auf keinen Fall. Heirat und Kinder kommen für ihn nicht in Frage – bis eine schöne Frau unerwartet in sein Leben tritt und alles auf den Kopf stellt.Angela Carson hat die Hoffnung fast aufgegeben. Da ihre biologische Uhr unerbittlich tickt, glaubt sie nicht mehr an die wahre Liebe oder den richtigen Mann. Aber als das Schicksal sie mit dem versc...