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20 years of the Media24 banning
I'VE LIVED for twenty years with a ban on my writing by Media24. The company destroyed black jazz history, photography and a piece on Iranian Faridah Zariv's "Hand of Fatima" exhibition at the Bo Kaap. For my trouble I was locked up, subjected to a racist religious inquisition. (All documented he...
How Senegal built a train that took cars off the road
Herman Lategan, slave labour, apartheid collaborator?
THE Bertelsmann Group, now a global media conglomerate, publisher of Herman Lategan's biography Hoerkind (Penguin Random), has acknowledged that it was not a resistance fighter but a collaborator with the Nazi regime, becoming the largest supplier of books to the German army (Wehrmacht). Founder...
Anti-Semitism off the charts in South Africa
FOR DECADES South Africans from across the political spectrum paid lip-service to the so-called 'two-state solution' in the Middle East. Pandering to universal notions of human rights, racial equality and justice for all. Following the passing of our nation's founder, Nelson Mandela, whose ideal...
Steers episode demonstrates important issue in a Labour case
WHEN some Steers employees were seen doing gardening outside a franchise in a viral video, Mzanzi social media erupted. Steers were quick to issue a statement saying, among other measures, "the franchisee at their Menlo Park outlet had been issued a formal notice, and all managers at the restaura...