JUST how out-to-lunch South Africa's media are, can be seen by how the Mail & Guardian have been forced to issue a retraction and apology. On 6 August 2025, the publication published an article under the headline “Mbalula dares US to bring on sanctions against ANC leaders” . "The article incorrec...
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Ramphele’s grand inquisition proceeds
IT was Sartre who remarked: “If the Jew did not exist, the anti-Semite would invent him.” The French philosopher's seminal work Anti-Semite and Jew: An Exploration of the Etiology of Hate details the manner in which Anti-Semites objectify and deprive Jews of rights ordinarily enjoyed by others. O...
Presidential Monologue fails to gain an electoral mandate.
THE President's quest for an extra-Parliamentary mandate in the face of ANC failure to gain a Parliamentary majority, necessitating a ruling coalition, is failing to persuade anyone. In delivering his political sermon today, Ramaphosa appeared to be seeking a mandate beyond the ruling coalition,...
Trump: ‘White Genocide’, straw-man or scare-crow?
The press are lying to us about farm murders
Gaza: Step back from the war before it is too late Mr Ramaphosa
FOR DECADES South Africa's ruling ANC has clung to the notion that solidarity with the Palestinian cause translates into influencing events on the ground. Yet the upshot of expelling the Israeli ambassador Eliav Belotsercovsky following the atrocity of 7/10, appears to be an ingress into the conf...
Dear Ebrahim Rasool, open letter to former SA ambassador to USA
Dear Ebrahim Rasool, YOUR CAMPAIGN IN SUPPORT OF GLOBAL INTIFADA, CLERICAL DICTATORSHIP & JIHAD REFERS We first met at Community House back in the 1980s, where your organisation, World Council on Religion and Peace (WCRP) had its offices. Subsequently you became involved in environmental justice...
