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...

FOR too long my own country South Africa has been trading off bloodshed — the 69 deaths at Sharpville, the apartheid-era massacres of Boipatong (45), and earlier loss of life at Bulhoek (163) and Leliesfontein (35) which occurred under the colonial authorities. As a consequence, of our hard-won t...

OVER the years, former gold-dealer and banker, Terry Crawford-Browne has proven to be somewhat of a jaded crusader against war, that is, an opponent of militarism whenever it suits him. Thus while he opposes Western arms deals under the rubric "Economists Allied For Arms Reduction" and especially...

JULIUS MALEMA cynically used an event held to commemorate the 1960 Sharpville massacre to lend his support by implication, to the bombing of a Mariupol Theatre four days earlier, in which 400 persons including children were sheltering. He thus praised Putin's invasion of the Ukraine on a National...

Dear 'Wokus Pokus' Saffer Putin Supporter Yes, I mean you. One of the many pseudo lefties in South Africa who claim "Russia is surrounded by Nato" despite the country sharing a border with Kazakhstan, Mongolia and China. The average, misguided socialist wannabee stuck with what Nigel Gibson writi...