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...

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IT WAS a series of 'inflammatory speeches' made outside former president Jacob Zuma's estate in Nkandla which had initially lead to the suspension of Carl Niehaus’s ANC membership on 7 July 2021. At a press briefing flanked by camouflage wearing cadres of uMkhonto weSizwe Military Veterans Associ...

PRESIDENT RAMAPHOSA alleges that we are experiencing unprecedented acts of sedition intended to destabilize and disestablish South Africa via economic sabotage and insurrection. This week's civil unrest was "nothing less than a deliberate, co-ordinated and well-planned attack on our democracy," h...