SOUTH AFRICA has a long history of resistance to war. From objectors to the Anglo-Boer war during the 1900s to resistance to the SADF border war, the history of local pacifism and opposition to war is a rich and illustrious one. The first 'Stop the War' committee was an anti-war organization that...

THE first casualty in war is the truth, and saying this doesn't help the fact that not only has our daily press failed to distance itself from the conflict, many journos actively transgress the boundaries of objectivity and reason. Immediately following the 7 October 'Simchat Torah' massacre, inv...

SOUTH AFRICAN politics has long seen itself as the moral equivalent of the civil rights movement, the inheritors of a long history that includes the battle for women’s rights, the suffrage, the Freedom Charter, majority rule, and progress towards economic freedom and other liberties such as LGBT,...

EFF leader explains his lineage, with claim that his ancestors are Israeli.

Redi Tlhabi: “There are a lot of politicians who say stupid things. there is a minister, who recently said something about the CIA funding non profit organizations. That’s a lot of nonsense and it gets called out in South Africa.” “It is true that South Africa benefits richly from its relationshi...

THE ANGLICAN Church of South Africa appears to have endorsed a statement by the South African Council of Churches 'declaring Israel an apartheid state'. This just weeks after the Archbishop of Canturbury Justin Welby had dismissed comparisons with South Africa’s former racist constitution, by sta...