WHILE residents of Lavender Hill and Steenberg were protesting against prepaid meters and Cape Town City officials sought to blame Eskom for tariff increases — some 20 000 Capetonians attended a two day 'Solar & Storage Convention' at the CTICC. As an angry mob gathered along military road, the p...

AS THE world deliberated on the controversy surrounding Algerian boxer Imane Khalif, who had previously failed a gender test by the International Boxing Association (IBA), matters were coming to head in a long-standing legal dispute involving South Africa's Caster Semenya, 32, who was born with '...

In the critically acclaimed film "BlacKkKlansman," directed by Spike Lee, the term "toad" is ingeniously used to refer to a specific type of 'white person'. The historical context of this term presents all sorts of problems but has been decoded by critics as a dramatic technique that 'provides in...

BARELY a week after it was announced the 'Government of National Unity' (GNU) appears to have faltered. At contention is the difference between 8 cabinet posts or six for the Democratic Alliance and the tricky subject of who is to be named as deputy president alongside many regional agreements wi...

THREE LEADERS of Palestinian Islamist group Harakat al-Muqawama al-Islamiya have been indicted by ICC chief prosecutor Karim Khan: “On the basis of evidence collected and examined by my Office, I have reasonable grounds to believe that Yahya SINWAR (Head of the Islamic Resistance Movement (“Hamas...

Iranian parliamentary leader, President Raisi, has died in a helicopter crash over the weekend. The head of the 'Combatant Clergy Association' was active in a theocracy run by Ayatollahs following the 1979 revolution. Raisi ran for president in 2017 as the candidate of the conservative 'Popular F...