IT IS easy to become cynical following the events surrounding Senekal over the past two weeks. On the one hand, extremists who justify farm murders by driving an overtly racist Afro-chauvinist narrative (Africa exclusively for black Africans). A story which ignores the very real problem faced by...

SOUTH AFRICA has a constitution whose preamble asserts that we are a non-racial country. Unfortunately our government believes otherwise. The ANC conveniently terms itself a non-racial party, but then myopically discriminates against persons on the basis that Africans can only be from one exclusi...

THIS past week saw some of South Africa's top judges demanding a retraction of remarks made by former ANC youth league leader Andile Lungisa that 'his case was unfairly decided because of political pressure and affiliation". If everything was hunky dory in our Republic, the erstwhile ANC deployee...

Dear Ed, Seth Rogen: 'I was fed a huge amount of lies about Israel' refers As an anti-war activist opposed to the abuse of the term 'apartheid' in the Middle East, I wish to respond to the latest binary correspondence on Israel and Palestine carried by The Guardian. In particular I wish to point...

THIS PAST week saw British scientists lauded for a successful phase 1 vaccine trial. A working vaccine may be available by the end of 2020. Unfortunately deploying a global immunisation programme may prove to be harder than producing the vaccine. Although the United Nations is pushing all countri...

A PETITION circulated by Nyasha Mboti, asks: "Why are there no Apartheid Studies in South Africa, or in any other country across the globe? In 1994 Nelson Mandela said "Never, never and never again" to apartheid. But how do you say "Never again" to something that you do not study? Mboti adds: "Th...