IT WAS bound to happen. The bizarre situation in which two apartheid-era springboks were taken to task by a post-democracy Springbok, over racism, quotas and paternalism. Followed by the media spin driven by Multichoice Supersport whose holding company Naspers refuses to come clean over its role...

THERE is an emerging far-left junta in South Africa. A disparate red anschluss surrounding the egos of Malema, Shivambu, Ndlozi and Vavi, who equally view Mandela's legacy with antipathy and Constitutional democracy, as a means to an end. Our Constitution, accordingly, is nothing more than a high...

Significant departures from the political "truth" associated with the Jerusalem conflict 1. DEBUNKED: East Jerusalem is the Capital of Palestine Under International Law, and the Corpus Separatum, the City of Jerusalem was to be an independent enclave. It was Jordan which occupied East Jerusalem 1...

READERS may remember the controversy surrounding the banning and destruction of material published by Medialternatives. In particular the circumstances surrounding the elimination of my book review of A Secret Burden by none other than M&G editor Ferial Haffajee. The book itself was a collection...

THE New South Africa was founded as the culmination of a decades-long civil rights struggle. Dubbed the "Rainbow Nation" the country's emergence from apartheid, was manifest evidence of the ability of both black and white to solve collective problems, to put aside history and to move forward into...