IT WAS South Africa's Hendrick Verwoerd who first resorted to the apartheid analogy in 1961 when he dismissed an Israeli vote against South African apartheid at the United Nations, throwing blame and deflecting attention by saying, “Israel is not consistent in its new anti-apartheid attitude … th...
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Kanye West: Is South Africa becoming a safe haven for anti-Semitism, homophobia?
READERS may remember Kanye West, the musician caught in an Anti-Semitic spiral, having gone from Racist bad to Nazi worse in the space of six months. Now IOL claims "Kanye West says he’s ‘moving to South Africa’ to start a new life". Of course, what IOL meant was there were ten Kanye West's under...
Jozi Mayor Thapelo Amad: ‘No Homos please, we’re Muslims’
WITH the colors of Pan Arabism and the words 'Palestine' written in bold, Johannesburg's new major Thapelo Amad made his inaugural appearance. The politician and imam is a member of the far-right, minority Al Jama-ah (Arabic: الجماعة, lit. 'the Congregation') party, which has found itself with a...
SABC Monitor Tax: Is this a tax on general-purpose computing?
TECH Website Mybroadband are reporting that "SABC has started demanding that South Africans pay TV licence fees for computer monitors, even if they are not receiving broadcast signals on these devices." Hanno Labuschagne writes: "As has been the case for the past few years, the annual e-mailed TV...
David Robert Lewis interviewed by Chad Cupido
Chad Cupido of Cape Conscious Media's Edutainment Podcast interviewed DRL on the Muizenberg Electricity Crisis Committee (MECC), environmentalism, energy cooperatives, microgrids, nuclear power, Koeberg, the War in Ukraine and much more. Here is the full podcast
Unfortunately for our ‘statistician general’, Eskom maths just doesn’t add up (updated)
AVAILABILITY of electricity in South Africa is now at its worst in living memory. Prices are skyrocketing, tariffs are set to increase by a whopping 18.65% and the ruling party is hamstrung by its inability to unbundle Eskom into separate units. This at the same time as government insists on main...
