MY WISH for this year is that we all spend a little more time to engage each other and our respective communities with active peacebuilding and compassionate communication aka non-violent communication. Over New Year I spent some time reading Mars...
Category: Editorial
RAMAPHOSA GAFFE: A River too Far?
FOR some it was merely a ‘gaffe’, an awkward ‘statement that many regard as anti-Israel’, for others it was a ‘river too far’, a red line in the sand marked Antisemitism. In many countries such as the UK and Germany, the phrase ‘from the River to the Sea’, is banned outright due to its falling [&...
South Africa’s Cherry-picking Genocide case before the International Courts
IN 2016 South African Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development Michael Masutha confirmed during a media briefing that South Africa had submitted to the United Nations (UN) its 'notice of intention to withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC)' Readers should note here, the ICC...
Open letter to IOL’s Lance Witten,
Dear Lance Witten, Your Editorial refers A delusion is an unshakeable belief in something that's untrue. You could call the Israeli government right wing and even extremists, and the status quo highly problematic (and take a non-binary approach) but you cannot call, the rape and murder of over 26...
Behold, I am Malema the Mighty, bow before my absolutist, authoritarian glory
AS EFF SUPREMO Julius Malema rose from the decks of an elevator platform within the FNB soccer stadium, showered with pop-star confetti before 94 000 of his supporters, he was echoing another stadium-size political event which had occurred in Russia to mark the anniversary of an authoritarian ...
Reflections on Freedom & Workers Day 2023
FREEDOM DAY is a monument to majority rule under an inclusive democratic system that relegated previous attempts to segregate the franchise according to skin colour. We no longer have to look over our shoulders for the special branch, nor worry about spooks under our beds, and any comparisons wit...