Messers Desmond Tutu, Sisi Virginia Khampepe, Wynand Malan, Yasmin Sooka, et al. Dear Commissioners, I write this letter having had good cause to reflect upon several events of this past year on Reconciliation Day. It should be noted that Reconciliation Day, formerly 'Day of the Vow', or 'Day of...

THE PRESIDENT'S youngest son Tumelo Ramaphosa recently appeared on national television, punting blockchain technology, artificial intelligence (AI) and a digital financial future. Some of his previous projects include turning wildlife into digital tokens via a crypocurrency investment scheme for...

SOUTH AFRICA is unique in the world so far as right-wing Christian theology is concerned. The so-called 'Covenant of Blood River' is one of the few instances in which settlers went far beyond racist concepts such as 'manifest destiny' and 'eminent domain' . The Boers literally declared themselves...

BEFORE a global audience of millions, Springbok captain Siya Kolisi thanked the nation following his side’s historic Rugby World Cup win on Saturday. So far as Kolisi was concerned, this was yet another miracle, a wonderful example of ‘the different races working together‘ he said, to bring an hi...

IN A LENGTHY statement to the press early this month, South Africa's Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng warned those 'making allegations against judges and the judiciary to stop hiding behind fictional identities or names' He claimed further that he never received any formal complaints against his col...

THERE is no evidence that the Ruperts were during the 1980s, for all intents and purposes, in favour of anything more than apartheid euphemism and cant — the shallow transformation which characterised PW Botha's much-vaunted tricameral Parliament and which for a short time, allowed for separate h...