Reaching out from the Global South
NELSON MANDELA’S most-quoted line on Palestine travels the world redacted and stripped of company: “We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians.” It appears on murals and banners as though it were the wh...
The anointed, self-appointed, savior of the 'white race', Pieter Kriel, whose past gesticulations on issues to do with Afrikanerdom (involving ritual cleansing of his ancestors guilt), provided him with a pulpit, has now chosen to target black Jews and African Zionists. In the process Kriel displ...
ABDULLAH IBRAHIM, the Cape Town-born pianist whom Nelson Mandela called "our Thelonious Monk" died peacefully in Germany on June 15, 2026, following a short illness, surrounded by loved ones. He was 91. He had last performed barely three months earlier, on March 27, at the Cape Town International...
Cape Town: South African Airways has come under sharp criticism after Flight SA313 came perilously close to a fuel emergency during last week’s violent Cape storm, despite clear and timely severe weather warnings issued by the South African Weather Service (SAWS). The airline’s decision to procee...
On this day, the offices of The Bantu World, were bombed in 1942. The offices of The Bantu World were bombed by the Ossewabrandwag, a pro-Nazi Afrikaner nationalist group opposing South Africa's WWII alliance with the Allies. OverviewThe offices of The Bantu World newspaper, a prominent publicati...