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Judiciary rewriting Bill of Rights?
20 years of the Media24 banning
I'VE LIVED for twenty years with a ban on my writing by Media24. The company destroyed black jazz history, photography and a piece on Iranian Faridah Zariv's "Hand of Fatima" exhibition at the Bo Kaap. For my trouble I was locked up, subjected to a racist religious inquisition. (All documented he...
Why our media lacks credibility when it comes to Iran
MEDIA24, the same outlet that destroyed several of my articles and photography related to South African black Jazz history, also spiked a 2006 review of Farideh Zariv "Hand of Fatima" exhibition in the Bo Kaap. Zariv is an Iranian expat living in Australia, whose work poses important questions ab...
How Senegal built a train that took cars off the road
Dishonest spaces, Ntsiki Mazwai & Jewface
Ntsiki Mazwai's "Moyo Space" claims to be 'a social cohesion space', and yet it is anything but safe when it comes to Jews. Yesterday, she blocked me from attending her sessions, the latest has as its starting point the Film & Publications Board (FPB) refusal to certify a propaganda film that rep...