LAST MONTH Argentina, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia and the UAE were invited to join a grouping of 'top emerging economies' known as BRICS dreamt up by Goldman Sachs economist Jim O'Neill. The only thing linking the bloc previously was their economic status. Nowadays, the addition of six ne...

DURING 1978, the apartheid government of South Africa conducted a series of airborne raids and military assaults against the South West African People's Organisation (SWAPO) in Angola. Most notable was the raid by the SADF against the town of Cassinga which resulted in the Cassinga Massacre. On 1...

OMICRON has a normal Cold virus insertion 214EPE as part of its mutation and is developing into a less pathogenic virus, at the same time it appears that hospitalisations and death rates are decoupling from case loads, which continue to skyrocket. As John Campbell MD puts it, "the virus caught a...

A STATIST POWER-GRAB is on the boil. Government control of your entire life from cradle to grave is what many political pundits have in mind. Whether it is the far-left who are pursuing the end of private property ownership in order to make the state the 'custodian of all property', or misguided...

CONTRIBUTIONS by two correspondents published on Politicsweb demonstrate the diametrically opposed views on the existence of Israel as a "democratic state with a Jewish character". Roy Iscawowitz has taken Milton Shain to task for reiterating the manner in which the country sprung to life after t...