Reaching out from the Global South
THE Bertelsmann Group, now a global media conglomerate, publisher of Herman Lategan's biography Hoerkind (Penguin Random), has acknowledged that it was not a resistance fighter but a collaborator with the Nazi regime, becoming the largest supplier...
YOUR LETTER is published behind a paywall associated with an apartheid media company that refuses to publish my own letters and has censored and destroyed my writing and photography, but is copied on social media. My earlier piece on Nigel Branken, and Cachalia also refers. I choose to respond di...
NO SOONER had the principal of the posh girls school, Roedean resigned, following a debacle over tennis, where the school at first refused to play Jewish scholars at King David, "because they were Jewish", then issued a series of communiques before resorting to an embarrassing apology, persons su...
FOR DECADES South Africans from across the political spectrum paid lip-service to the so-called 'two-state solution' in the Middle East. Pandering to universal notions of human rights, racial equality and justice for all. Following the passing of our nation's founder, Nelson Mandela, whose ideal...
THIS past week has been quite a storm of racist invective aimed at Jews in general, and Israel in particular. It appears an Anglican girls tennis team had refused to play King David in Linksfield, due to the Jewish school's association with Zionism (too many Stars of David?), and following repres...
WHEN some Steers employees were seen doing gardening outside a franchise in a viral video, Mzanzi social media erupted. Steers were quick to issue a statement saying, among other measures, "the franchisee at their Menlo Park outlet had been issued a formal notice, and all managers at the restaura...