SOME TEN  months ago, I published The End of the Anthropocene, my response to the H20 Day Zero crisis in Cape Town. Needless to say, it got people talking about climate change in a new way. The resulting global debate around extinction has been simply phenomenal. Not only did the IPCC released an...

TWO YEARS ago we reported on Johann Rupert's Magnus Gaffe in which he claimed variously to have been a key figure within the anti-apartheid movement whilst under the whip of Magnus Malan. This week, we can only watch aghast as the CEO of Remgro, Richement and Reinet (R as in Rands figure large in...

READERS MAY be familiar with my correspondence with the previous UCT Vice Chancellor, Max Price, and the follow-up penned to his successor,  Mamokgethi Phakeng, written after a seminar 'Let’s Talk About the History of Racism in Science: Darwin’s Hunch and the Search for Human Origins' by Christa...

HE COULD have given a speech from constitutional hill, a lecture from an academic institution or a civil society NGO, instead Ronnie Kasrils, the self-appointed deacon of moral rectitude in the Middle East chose Claremont Main Road Mosque. Delivering a scathing rebuke of the treatment meted out t...

IF THE latest IPCC intergovernmental report on climate change, didn't draw your attention to the dire impacts of global warming at 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels then a new study of the Earth's oceans, showing the planet is much more sensitive to fossil-fuel emissions than past studies have s...

Dear Douglas, COMPLAINT WIKIMANIA CAPE TOWN While I appreciate the trouble you have taken to respond to me, in particular your acknowledgement of my contributions to the community over the past years, your unsupported assertions are both unwarranted and unsubstantiated. I therefore respond to you...