Ntsiki Mazwai's "Moyo Space" claims to be 'a social cohesion space', and yet it is anything but safe when it comes to Jews. Yesterday, she blocked me from attending her sessions, the latest has as its starting point the Film & Publications Board (FPB) refusal to certify a propaganda film that rep...
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Narcissism of the Left: Dear Daniel Friedman
YOUR LETTER is published behind a paywall associated with an apartheid media company that refuses to publish my own letters and has censored and destroyed my writing and photography, but is copied on social media. My earlier piece on Nigel Branken, and Cachalia also refers. I choose to respond di...
Roedean, Redi and the Chief Rabbi
THIS past week has been quite a storm of racist invective aimed at Jews in general, and Israel in particular. It appears an Anglican girls tennis team had refused to play King David in Linksfield, due to the Jewish school's association with Zionism (too many Stars of David?), and following repres...
Repealed legislation from 1950 now used to classify employees by race
Sakeliga and NEASA release a statement this week confirming that "South Africa’s Department of Employment and Labour is instructing employers to apply the long-repealed 1950 Population Registration Act to racially classify their employees." The unlawful instruction, apparently delivered by the De...
Holocaust Museum & the Megan Choritz Megaphone
MEGAPHONE-mouth Megan Choritz appears to have become a permanent installation outside Cape Town's Holocaust Museum. An institution that deals exclusively with the past and which has nothing to do with Israel as such, is being picketed on a weekly basis by the Qatari-based 'Jews for a Free Palesti...
South Africa imports UN apartheid convention, whilst rewriting its terms
A PRIVATE-MEMBERS bill sponsored by Imran Ismail-Moosa MP of Al Jama-ah party claims to domesticate the 1973 UN Apartheid Convention. The bill's aim is anything but the domestication of the apartheid convention. The UN 'Convention on the Suppression of the Crime of Apartheid' as it was implemente...
