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...

AS ONE of the vaccinated, I am generally in favour of universal immunisation strategies. The majority of deaths during the Covid epidemic have come from the ranks of the unvaccinated. Vaccines save lives, I wrote, but 'removing patient consent destroys the foundation of our democracy'. I have thu...

IT IS more than a little ironic that during the 20th Anniversary of the Durban Conference Against Racism, Professor Salim Abdool Karim appears to advocate a case of dominica potestas, that most ancient of power relations between master and slave articulated during the period of colonial rule, in...

SOUTH AFRICA'S corrupt legal authority Halton Cheadle is at it again. Readers may remember the erstwhile 'labour czar', a man who in 2010 sought to determine a labour court decision in favour of his own client and business associates, in the process shooting down the TRC Report and inter alia alt...