Reaching out from the Global South
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 Zionis...
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...
ONE of my jazz history interviews destroyed by Media24, was with none other than the Josh & Robert Sithole family. Attempts by my attorneys to regain access to the material in 2016 stalled upon the issue of the terms of a contract that does not exist. The contract held up by Media24 during the 20...
Sakeliga and NEASA release a statement this week confirming that "South Africa’s Department of Employment and Labour is instructing employers to apply the long-repealed 1950 Population Registration Act to racially classify their employees." The unlawful instruction, apparently delivered by the De...
MEGAPHONE-mouth Megan Choritz appears to have become a permanent installation outside Cape Town's Holocaust Museum. An institution that deals exclusively with the past and which has nothing to do with Israel as such, is being picketed on a weekly basis by the Qatari-based 'Jews for a Free Palesti...
RASHID Lombard was a photojournalist and political photographer at South Press. One of the struggle papers whose pages now form the background header of Medialternatives, right above this piece. Boeta Rashid practically took every image that appeared in the weekly paper, pushing out black and whi...