THIS week Kevin Bloom, a Daily Maverick associate editor waded into a controversy surrounding 'Gift of the Givers' (GOTG). The group faces allegations of channeling funds designated for humanitarian relief to organisations such as Harakat al-Muqawama al-Islamiyya (Hamas), who are listed as terror...
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Logan Case: High Court upholds ‘petty apartheid’
THE SITUATION is all too familiar. A 25-year-old black man Thabiso Danca, found that he was welcome and able to enter a Cape Town pub whenever accompanied by white colleagues. But without the gift of whiteness, he wasn’t even recognized at the door. The situation escalated when Danca, upset at be...
Namibia’s Mbumba on Drought, Green Hydrogen
President Ramaphosa’s deplorable 7/10 address
“TODAY marks one year since the start of an onslaught against the Palestinian people” reads President Ramaphosa’s perverse statement released to mark the anniversary of the 7/10 attack on the Nova Music festival and Kibbutz Be’eri alongside other communities in Southern Israel, which claimed the...
Replacement theology at heart of Middle East conflict
OUR COUNTRY to its credit has enacted legislation to suppress both apartheid and racism. Proposals by the Palestine Solidarity Committee (PSC) for introduction of a bill which will 'domesticate' the 1973 United Nations International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apa...
SABC Propagandist Sophie Mokoena parrots Iran on ballistic missile attack
TUESDAYS massive barrage of 200 ballistic missiles fired from Iran were aimed at Tel Aviv and other urban centres within Israel, resulting in air-raid sirens and people running for shelter. The barrage was twice the size of a similar event in April, signifies a major escalation of the conflict. I...
