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...

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...

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...

IMAGINE what South Africa would be like today if Steve Biko was not assassinated in 1977?  Instead of a negotiated settlement in which whites retained some of the legacy of the nation's colonial history the country would look very different. Biko's ideology of black consciousness  emphasised the...