THE Islamic Fatwa Council (IFC) has ruled on the conduct of Hamas (Ḥarakat al-Muqāwamah al-ʾIslāmiyyah), charging the Islamist entity with violating the laws of the Holy Quran. The Fatwa was published on the IFC website on 9 March 2023 and is signed by Grand Ayatollah Shaikh Fadhil al-Budairi. Ac...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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