THIS week IOL waded into yet another 'multibaby' scandal, this time involving the identity of an account on social media platform X.com. The manner in which the news group deals with facts raises a number of questions regarding 'press privilege' and its latest antics must be condemned as an abuse...

IT WAS South Africa's Hendrick Verwoerd who first resorted to the apartheid analogy in 1961 when he dismissed an Israeli vote against South African apartheid at the United Nations, throwing blame and deflecting attention by saying, “Israel is not consistent in its new anti-apartheid attitude … th...

WITHIN the space of months, South Africa has seen two separate reports implicating the Presidency in alleged corrupt activities. The first report was that of the Zondo Commission into Allegations of State Capture, whose first volume was handed over on 4 January, followed by the the second, third...

JULIUS MALEMA has doubled-down on his statements calling murder a 'revolutionary activity'. The party advocates the use of violence in dealing with what it terms, racism and 'white supremacy'. Begging the question who gets to decide which is which, and with obvious problems presented by vigilanti...

KANYE WEST is certainly never one to avoid controversy, but over the past weeks, his pronouncements on social media have been called out for being nothing more than vulgar anti-Semitism. The result was the cancellation of lucrative contracts with sports brand Adidas, the shelving of an unreleased...