IF THE probe of 5 Kwazulu-Natal judges fingered in a UK investigation of a $2 trillion-a-year (R28 trillion) money-laundering ring isn't enough to grab your attention, or the revelations of judicial impropriety, influence-peddling and nepotism levelled against Western Cape High Court Judge Presid...

WHILE THE Canadian state of Ontario was removing the cap on the number of marijuana shops in the province, South Africa's drug enforcement agencies were busy taking down a dagga dispensary franchise operation known as Canapax. News of cannabis operations being opened to the public overseas were m...

Messers Desmond Tutu, Sisi Virginia Khampepe, Wynand Malan, Yasmin Sooka, et al. Dear Commissioners, I write this letter having had good cause to reflect upon several events of this past year on Reconciliation Day. It should be noted that Reconciliation Day, formerly 'Day of the Vow', or 'Day of...

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...