Dear Ms Naledi Pandor, Your campaign to exclude the Jewish African Diaspora from the African Union refers. That I live in a country with an egregious history of involvement and support for Hitler's policies of mass extermination of Jews, should not have to be the starting point for a debate in So...
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Activism - Page 18
Tutu, a leading light of the anti-apartheid movement was no Saint
MANY eulogies following the death of Desmond Tutu exaggerate the Anglican cleric's post-democratic contribution in the process glossing over serious shortcomings. That Tutu was a leading light in the struggle against apartheid can never be cast in doubt, and I take pride in having marched with hi...
Sisulu steps in the proverbial ‘kakka’
FOR TWENTY years Imelda Marcos, the First Lady of the Philippines and her husband Ferdinand Marcos stole billions from the Filipino people, before they were convicted after mass protests that would later become known as the 'People Power Revolution'. Imelda Marcos's luxury shoe collection is said...
Dear Haidar Eid, author of ‘Open Letter from Palestine to Miss South Africa”
Dear Haidar Eid, We don’t know each other. I only know that your name is Haider Eid and just heard of your name this month, when your letter written in response to Miss South Africa's attendance at the Miss Universe pageant held at the Port of Eilat, on the Southern Negev desert and Red Sea, […]
Here is how this pandemic ends, Mr Cheadle
OMICRON has a normal Cold virus insertion 214EPE as part of its mutation and is developing into a less pathogenic virus, at the same time it appears that hospitalisations and death rates are decoupling from case loads, which continue to skyrocket. As John Campbell MD puts it, "the virus caught a...
Mandates: Statist power grab undermines personal autonomy as well as collective rights
A STATIST POWER-GRAB is on the boil. Government control of your entire life from cradle to grave is what many political pundits have in mind. Whether it is the far-left who are pursuing the end of private property ownership in order to make the state the 'custodian of all property', or misguided...
