Reaching out from the Global South
NATIONAL TREASURY'S draft capital flow regulations contain a definition of "crypto asset" so broad it would capture green energy certificates, governance tokens, and loyalty points. Here's why that matters — and what needs to change. There is a pa...
SOME TIME AGO I arrived late at a panel discussion on Israel and Palestine hosted by one Terry Crawford-Brown. Readers my remember the Irish banker and former spokesperson for the Anglican Church, whose credibility was left in tatters after he attempted to pin the blame for Chris Hani's assassina...
UNLIKE the majority faith group who are Christians, most Jews experience what I refer to as baseline Anti-Semitism, hostility towards Jewish identity that is so prevalent it is background noise or weather. 7/10 merely emboldened what was already latent within our supposedly tolerant, free societi...
IN A PIECE entitled The Queen of the Night falls silent — legendary soprano Mimi Coertse dies, writer Herman Lategan introduces a chain of hagiographic fantasy that reduces Coertse's unashamed collaboration and open association with the apartheid regime's lead tenor, Gé Korsten, to a mere "fraugh...
On this day, the offices of The Bantu World, were bombed in 1942. The offices of The Bantu World were bombed by the Ossewabrandwag, a pro-Nazi Afrikaner nationalist group opposing South Africa's WWII alliance with the Allies. OverviewThe offices of The Bantu World newspaper, a prominent publicati...