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...

In response to recent statements by President Mahmoud Abbas, a group of Palestinians have​ released an open letter: We the undersigned, Palestinian academics, writers, artists, activists, and people of all walks of life, unequivocally condemn the morally and politically reprehensible comments mad...

LAST MONTH Argentina, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia and the UAE were invited to join a grouping of 'top emerging economies' known as BRICS dreamt up by Goldman Sachs economist Jim O'Neill. The only thing linking the bloc previously was their economic status. Nowadays, the addition of six ne...