FOR A DEPUTY-PRESIDENT who likes to claim responsibility for drafting a Secular Constitution and Bill of Rights that includes Gay Rights and other freedoms associated with the LGBT community, a visit to Iran must present a number of awkward problems. Chief of which is the Iranian Penal Code. Lesb...

IN HIS 65,000-word Anti-Jewish treatise written in 1543, German Reformation leader Martin Luther called the Hebrew prophet Jeremiah a heretic: "Jeremiah, you wretched heretic, you seducer and false prophet". He then claimed that Jewish history was "assailed by much heresy", and that “Christ the l...

IMAGINE what South Africa would be like today if Steve Biko was not assassinated in 1977?  Instead of a negotiated settlement in which whites retained some of the legacy of the nation's colonial history the country would look very different. Biko's ideology of black consciousness  emphasised the...

ONE of the claims made by apartheid revisionists, aside from their strange assertion that apartheid is somehow a Jewish conspiracy against the world, is that the Palestinian entities in the West bank and Gaza are similar to the apartheid-era bantustans, and thus the Jews, or at least Israelis, ar...

THE latest revision of apartheid history by veteran journalist Allister Sparks, in effect claiming that apartheid is an Israeli invention, and merely one of the Jewish state's policies alongside the Land Act and Group Areas Act certainly takes the cake so far as mendacity and propaganda is concer...

Universal Health Coverage is likely to become the backbone on which the health development agenda beyond 2015 will be constructed. To avoid unintended effects, Universal Health Coverage should keep away from committing seven sins and should try to practice seven virtues. Backed by most actors in...