IT strikes me there is something pitiful about the two-state tango in which both Palestine and Israel are caught in an existential embrace from which neither country can extricate itself. Sure, recognition of a Jewish State contingent on there being a democratic Palestine in which human rights ar...

Tony Weaver who epitomises the macho gun-slinging war correspondent, now wants to ingratiate himself with the End Conscription Campaign and its 25th Anniversary celebration. In a recent column in the neo-con daily Cape Times, Weaver relates his military career in the apartheid war machine. Listin...

If you've been following the events surrounding the ongoing saga of apartheid reparations and the recent turnaround in South African government policy which had previously blocked the action, then you'll probably want some background on the IBM story. Back in 1990 I wrote a letter to a technogeek...

I have just come from Gympie Street where Willie Heyn and his family and their belongings are on the street, forceably evicted by an apartheid-era injustice which continues to play itself out today. With no opportunity given to purchase their home, in which they lived for generations, the Heyn fa...

I am busy watching the "we are all fashioned from the same garment" Obama Easter address in which the US president quotes Martin Luther King and refers to Judaism and Christianity in terms of renewal. The video has been posted by a facebook friend, Stephanie Williams, an African-American who ston...

Heavens, for the life of me, it would appear that the Independent Group and Media24 have deleted every article I have ever written for these two mainstream publishers, and the same goes for all of my writing done during the Struggle, under force majeur force majeure, in a State of Emergency and s...