The Cape Town World Music Festival (CWM Festival) has begun in the face of a call to boycott the festival. The Boycott Divestment and Sanctions campaign (BDS) has released a statement saying "We have recently learned that the Cape Town World Music Festival  has crossed and violated the internatio...

THERE are a number of things which need to be said in regard to the recent action against Reggies, a Jewish-owned business operating in South Africa. Firstly it would appear that children are now being used as political pawns in a war being conducted by adults.  Secondly, a boycott of Jewish Toys...

Three decades ago, the libertarian Alfred Kuzan published an article with the provocative title “Do We Ever Really Get Out of Anarchy?” The answer he gave is that we do not, that government only substitutes one kind of anarchy for another. In Kuzan's view it should be noted that anarchy or the st...

Joburg Pride response to 1 in 9 can be found here Johannesburg's Gay Pride Parade: Not Much to Be Proud Of

SPEAKING in front of the U.N. general assembly, 26 September 2012, U.S President Barack Obama called on world leaders to confront the forces of intolerance and extremism within their own countries and permit more freedom at home. The blatant deception in these remarks is so startling that when I...