SOUTH AFRICA comprehensively banned the practice of whaling in 1979. The campaign to 'save the whales' is one of our oldest conservation movements, predating the later environmental justice movement which emerged during the 1980s. This week, Royal Dutch Shell was given the go-ahead to invade trad...

CHRIS ROPER WRITES "we need to demand accountability of beauty pageant contestants and governments alike. And consistency in their application of principle." Roper's views are decidedly patriarchal, old-fashioned, and redolent of gentlemen clubs and men's magazines. He thus appears to garner his...

THE MISS UNIVERSE pageant was not the subject of a boycott when it was held in apartheid South Africa. In fact, the oft referred to event never occurred, and was never scheduled. Our country does not appear as a location on the list of Miss Universe pageants held every year since 1952 — except fo...

THE CAMPAIGN by those punting unlawful vaccine mandates ratcheted up yet another notch this week, with several opinion pieces casting those who oppose immunisation score cards and internal passports, as 'beneath scientific discourse' or to use Stephen Groote's phrase: members of the "desperate an...

STUDENT bodies have resoundingly rejected calls for 'mandatory vaccination' on our nation's campuses. Coercion defeats the purpose of constitutional guarantees, including bodily integrity and freedom of movement, not to mention academic freedom. The students say immunisation programmes should be...