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...
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Reaching out from the Global South
Activism - Page 20
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...
Shell Wild Coast : The struggle against whaling has come full circle
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...
Miss SA: Mind the gender gap, Mr Roper
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...
