TWO incidents involving campus politics in South Africa need some explanation. The first involved the Durban University of Technology (DUT). Last week its SRC chair was calling for all Jews to be deregistered and in particular, those Jews who support Israel. This week, the SRC was issuing a retra...
Medialternatives
Reaching out from the Global South
Activism - Page 40
Pig Wars, Woolworths, BDS
FIRST there were the fatwas and pronouncements by Islamic scholars on the status of Woolworths in the global BDS movement. Then well-heeled young Muslim students staged a bizarre flash-mob event, consisting of coordinated dance and movement while shouting Pro-Palestinian slogans. Then the combine...
Voicing Marikana – Artists Speak
Stop the War
THE war being fought by adults against children in the Middle East must stop. The war being waged by religious extremists against Secularism must come to an end. The bombing of civilians in Gaza and targeting of settlements in Israel must cease. The destruction of antiquities in the region, the l...
Towards a Social Wage
The first Muslim Caliph Abu Bakr introduced a guaranteed minimum standard of income, granting each man, woman, and child ten dirhams annually; this was later increased to twenty dirhams. American revolutionary Thomas Paine advocated a Citizen's Dividend to all US citizens as compensation for "los...
