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...
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USA withdraws Pandor’s Visa
NALEDI Pandor the former foreign minister, who launched South Africa's ICJ case against Israel in the aftermath of Operation Al Aqsa Flood, has had her USA Visa revoked. This action by the US state department is for a number of reasons, chief of which is Pandor expressing a willingness to extend...
NGK washes sin of apartheid with help from Francesca Albanese
WHEN THE World Alliance of Reformed Churches (WARC) declared "Apartheid is a heresy" at Ottawa in August 1982, they did so knowing that the general synods of South Africa's Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk (NGK) had posited there were "skriftuurlike gronde" (scriptural grounds) to support "rasse-ap...
Mendelsohn Case: A battle over academic right to dissent
THE MENDELSOHN review application against two UCT Council resolutions is taking place in the Western Cape High Court. It presents important challenges to a debate on rival definitions of antisemitism, academic freedom and the right to dissent under the current constitution. The basis for the chal...
Gillian Schutte receives journalism award from Nuclear industry
RUSSIA'S state nuclear energy corporation, ROSATUM, has awarded "journalist", Gillian Schutte with an award on behalf of the nuclear industry. "As Africa increasingly positions itself at the forefront of multipolar nuclear partnerships, the Rosatom Media Award reinforces the significance of indep...
Saturday October Seven documentation released
THE FIRST batch of Video and Photographic documentation surrounding the Operation Al Aqsa Flood event has been placed online. In a tweet by documentary film-maker Pierre Rehov. says: If you live outside of Israel and you still believe that October 7 was just another terror attack, think twice. Yo...
