Category: Apartheid

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General Rudzani Maphwanya & the creeping coup orchestrated by Iran

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...

Piers Morgan calls out Sophie Mokoena, Corder throws jelly beans

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

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...