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...

AS EFF SUPREMO Julius Malema rose from the decks of an elevator platform within the FNB soccer stadium, showered with pop-star confetti before 94 000 of his supporters, he was echoing another stadium-size political event which had occurred in Russia to mark the anniversary of an authoritarian — V...

IN A SPEECH littered with offensive references to 'men' and 'man' that ignored the substantial role played by African women, both during the struggle against apartheid, and the fight against colonialism, Prof PLO Lumumba gave students a one-sided sermon on African history, that avoided her-story....