THE PRESIDENT'S youngest son Tumelo Ramaphosa recently appeared on national television, punting blockchain technology, artificial intelligence (AI) and a digital financial future. Some of his previous projects include turning wildlife into digital tokens via a crypocurrency investment scheme for...

IT WAS during the dying days of apartheid, that I wrote a series of articles promoting 'ecological sustainable development' and deep ecology. The pieces published by Grassroots and South Press were extraordinary, the least of which is that they were published by a working class imprint shortly af...

SOUTH AFRICA is unique in the world so far as right-wing Christian theology is concerned. The so-called 'Covenant of Blood River' is one of the few instances in which settlers went far beyond racist concepts such as 'manifest destiny' and 'eminent domain' . The Boers literally declared themselves...

IN A LENGTHY statement to the press early this month, South Africa's Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng warned those 'making allegations against judges and the judiciary to stop hiding behind fictional identities or names' He claimed further that he never received any formal complaints against his col...

WITH LITTLE or no debate on the issue in the public sphere, (no Imbizos, lekgotlas nor indabas ) South Africa’s constitutional court delivered yet another major decision. This time making the country the 57th nation in the world to ban child spanking. That we appear to be moving away from the cas...

SOUTH AFRICANS may be suffering under a collective delusion, the rule of law. If one reads the latest round of media commentary, we are either stricken with a hopelessly corrupt judicial system, or driven by ulterior motives to question an infallible judiciary. In this binary view judges are eith...