"Both the SAPS and the NPA colluded with political forces to ensure the deliberate suppression of the bulk of apartheid era cases. Even though the TRC had handed over a list of  several hundred cases to the NPA with the recommendation that they be investigated further, virtually all of them were...

THE over-eager and misguided official who banned me from Wikimania Cape Town for allegedly 'disrupting a pre-event on 'Decolonising the Internet' and also for 'disrupting an event in Tunisia', (both events which I never attended) is no longer at Wikimedia. According to users of website Wikipedioc...

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...