THERE is officially 'no antisemitism' in South Africa. No sooner had Justice Minister Ronald Lamola kicked up a storm after making bizarre statements on a BBC hardtalk interview, the country was being entertained by two incidents from inside the...
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Organised crime, Eskom monopoly, De Ruyter en Swart.
ALARMING accounts of several crime syndicates operating within Eskom have arrived on the heels of similar findings made by the Zondo 'Commission of Inquiry into Allegations of State Capture, Corruption and Fraud in the Public Sector including Organs of State'. Judge Raymond Zondo's investigation...
Ukraine: Enter Dugmore & the Tankie Left
TANKIES are leftists who defend Russia's invasion of the Ukraine, but who are otherwise opposed to the use of tanks to resolve disputes. It is a term derived from an earlier generation of Western leftists who backed the Soviet invasion of Hungary in 1956 — and who also defend Russia’s behavior to...
Burning down the house, Zondo, Tutu, Mafe
NO SOONER had Desmond Tutu been given a rousing sendoff and funeral, when our Parliament was set ablaze, an inferno of epic proportions. This two days before the handover of volume one of the Zondo Report. It is a poignant, tragic moment in our nation's history. Coming hot on the heels of the eve...
If Biko and Plaatjie were alive today, debating non-racialism (response to Majavu)
THERE is a special place in hell reserved for those who wish to forge and revise history. A bizarre fabrication of the facts surrounding the origin of non-racialism was published in the Sunday Independent, written no less by a 'senior lecturer in the Department of Political and International Stud...
Rugby World Cup: Non-Racialism vs Multi-Racialism
BEFORE a global audience of millions, Springbok captain Siya Kolisi thanked the nation following his side’s historic Rugby World Cup win on Saturday. So far as Kolisi was concerned, this was yet another miracle, a wonderful example of ‘the different races working together‘ he said, to bring an hi...