THERE is officially 'no antisemitism' in South Africa. No sooner had Justice Minister Ronald Lamola kicked up a storm after making bizarre statements on a BBC hardtalk interview, the country was being entertained by two incidents from inside the country's various legislatures. A tie-episode invo...
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Minister Pandora: South Africa is sleepwalking into a catastrophe
NOT satisfied with promoting human rights (an objective which seems to change from country to country), South Africa has taken it upon itself to interdict a single party to a conflict whose apparent binary nature is the source of major global tensions. On the one side, a group of Jihadists whose...
Quo Vadis: Whither South Africa’s religious freedom?
SOUTH AFRICA has a troubled history of religious freedom going back to the Protestant Reformation and the plight of Huguenot refugees fleeing religious persecution under Catholic France. ‘God Is Not a Christian’ claimed the late Desmond Tutu, who also said: “When the missionaries came to Africa t...
Paradox of the Gatekeepers of War
THE WORLD is embroiled in a conflict over the meaning of war, the right of self-defense, non-aggression and armed struggle, the very institutions of peace, justice and global harmony. Having taken Israel to the ICJ and gained interim measures, none of which involve a direct ceasefire order (the o...
‘Moenie vir jouself dink nie, dink soos ons’
IN THE WAKE of South Africa's decontextualisation of the events of 7 October 2023, a case which depends upon a tragic chain of dropped narratives and outright denial of reality (No 1941 Farhud, No Holocaust, No UN181, everything 'All Palestine'), there has been a plethora of news pieces purportin...
