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 s...
Category: Apartheid
Piers Morgan calls out Sophie Mokoena, Corder throws jelly beans
WATCHING last nights Piers Morgan segment featuring Ernst Roets, Gareth Cliff, Dan Corder and Sophie Mokoena, was astonishing. Not only did Mokoena repeatedly interject, displaying to the world that she is little more than a propaganda commissar for the SABC, but like Dan Corder, she refused to a...
Anti-Semitism & its political adherents in Parliament
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...
Opposition to War does not necessarily entail supporting either side to the Gaza-Israel conflict
SOUTH AFRICA has a long history of resistance to war. From objectors to the Anglo-Boer war during the 1900s to resistance to the SADF border war, the history of local pacifism and opposition to war is a rich and illustrious one. The first 'Stop the War' committee was an anti-war organization that...
Kunene: ‘Calling Israel an apartheid state is an insult to South Africans’
Kanye West: Is South Africa becoming a safe haven for anti-Semitism, homophobia?
READERS may remember Kanye West, the musician caught in an Anti-Semitic spiral, having gone from Racist bad to Nazi worse in the space of six months. Now IOL claims "Kanye West says he’s ‘moving to South Africa’ to start a new life". Of course, what IOL meant was there were ten Kanye West's under...