RASHID Lombard was a photojournalist and political photographer at South Press. One of the struggle papers whose pages now form the background header of Medialternatives, right above this piece. Boeta Rashid practically took every image that appea...
Category: Apartheid
Opposition to race-labeling comes full circle
FOR DECADES those leading the challenge against race labeling, the idea that all individuals occupy distinct race categories defined in law, and backed by pseudo-scientific theories, for example the discredited multi-regionalist theory of human evolution, were predominantly by people of color. T...
NGK washes sin of apartheid with help from Francesca Albanese
WHEN THE World Alliance of Reformed Churches (WARC) declared "Apartheid is a heresy" at Ottawa in August 1982, they did so knowing that the general synods of South Africa's Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk (NGK) had posited there were "skriftuurlike gronde" (scriptural grounds) to support "rasse-ap...
Mail & Guardian proves itself to be a source of destruction of apartheid memory, once again
THIS MORNING I awoke to social media by a veteran journalist, reposting the words of a KZN academic about one of the seminal moments of my generation, an event known as Purple Rain. One would expect a journalist whose writing, often on behalf of a major weekly, suggest she is more than capable of...
Here is what they’re hiding from the public
Some of the pieces thrown out by Media24 People's Post: Almost 20 years with no justice, just corruption and lies by the ANC regime. SEE: Letter to Media24 tackling some of the above.
General Rudzani Maphwanya & the creeping coup orchestrated by Iran
IT WAS during the height of the sanctions campaign against apartheid South Africa that the country under PW Botha reached out to Iran in what became known as the 'Arms for Oil Deal': Initially, Iran under the Shah's regime had close economic and security ties with South Africa, including signific...