TIMES LIVE reports that justice minister Ronald Lamola apparently wants the deaths of anti-apartheid activists Neil Aggett and Hoosen Haffejee to be re-investigated. Only time can tell if he is serious this time. Lamola announced on Friday, according to the online daily, that he had requested the...

THERE is no evidence that the Ruperts were during the 1980s, for all intents and purposes, in favour of anything more than apartheid euphemism and cant — the shallow transformation which characterised PW Botha's much-vaunted tricameral Parliament and which for a short time, allowed for separate h...

IT WAS June of 1991, the apartheid government had just unbanned political parties such as the ANC and PAC, exiles were returning to the country, and negotiations towards a new democratic dispensation were in full sway. The First National Conference on Environment & Development, organised by mysel...

READERS may be aware of the circumstances surrounding the hosting of an exclusive "Decolonising the Internet" conference in Cape Town. A conference so exclusive that that it was not simply a well-funded invitation-only event, in the run-up to Wikimania Cape Town, but one which bizarrely excluded...

DEFEND STATUS OF TRUTH & RECONCILIATION COMMISSION BEFORE THE COURTS DEFEND THE PREAMBLE TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA I have less than one month in which to file an SCA appeal in terms of s17 (2) (b) against AJ Martin's racist decision (CA18417/17) to not provide relief wit...

THE argument that Israel represents the 'Jews of South Africa', often made by members of the SAJBD is as fallacious as the equal assertion that BDS and its leadership represent the diversity of Jewish history and culture, in particular the legacy of Jewish activists during the freedom struggle. A...