IT'S BEEN quite a week. 7 days after Salman Rushdie was stabbed by an assailant and rushed to hospital where he remains on the critical list, Mahmoud Abbas was drawing fire for comments he made at a press conference alongside German Chancellor Scholz, prompting an investigation by Berlin police....

IN MANY respects Oscar van Heerden represents all that is wrong inside South African academia. Its de-emphasis of evidence-based research in favour of pure scholasticism. The rote repetition of other's opinions, in an uncritical process which edifies 'woke logic' and the writings of the country's...

MOVES are afoot by state-sponsored news channel Russia Today (RT) to set up a regional hub in South Africa. Despite our pacifist constitution expressly outlawing 'propaganda for war' under article 16, (2) (a) — limitations on press freedom when it comes to calumny and disinformation to pursue 'sp...

AT the face of it, a cartoon caricature of a 'greedy capitalist' isn't anti-Semitic. Taken within the context of a boycott and disinvestment campaign against Israeli goods? Well, there are some who may be offended. Personally I don't find such images, which are redolent of similar Nazi propaganda...

IN 2005 the Mail & Guardian launched a news aggregation site Amagama. At the same time it hijacked content from users on its own free Blogmark platform, and thus work posted under a non-commercial creative commons license scheme. The company thus simply appropriated the material and republished i...

IN 2005 the earlier apartheid-era Nursing Act was redrafted to provide a 'democratic sheen'. Gone was the French term 'accoucheur', meaning 'one who assists at birth' usually a 'male midwife or obstetrician'. Colonial distinctions between midwife and pupil were instead replaced by several new cat...