OUR COUNTRY to its credit has enacted legislation to suppress both apartheid and racism. Proposals by the Palestine Solidarity Committee (PSC) for introduction of a bill which will 'domesticate' the 1973 United Nations International Convention on...
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Gillian Schutte defends race labeling, toads
In the critically acclaimed film "BlacKkKlansman," directed by Spike Lee, the term "toad" is ingeniously used to refer to a specific type of 'white person'. The historical context of this term presents all sorts of problems but has been decoded by critics as a dramatic technique that 'provides in...
Richard Calland: In the Land of the Blind, the one-eyed man is King – Desiderius Erasmus
IN a Mail & Guardian 'Thought Leader' piece 'Beware the one-eyed Middle East critic' (a rather unfortunate title given the casualties on either side, status of critic Salman Rushdie) Richard Calland myopically opines about what he 'observed' during his year 2000 sojourn in Israel. If all that was...
Kunene: ‘Calling Israel an apartheid state is an insult to South Africans’
US historical relations with South Africa are being mischaracterised by Putin propagandists
RONALD REAGAN'S REPUBLICAN USA may have been a tough nut to deal with during the 80s, but harping on about the perceived slight caused by his party's treatment of Nelson Mandela, whom they Republicans' labelled a 'terrorist', ignores the substantial contribution of many other personalities from w...
DEBUNKED: Palestinians and Jews, each form a distinct race & the conflict is thus like apartheid
IT WAS South Africa's Hendrick Verwoerd who first resorted to the apartheid analogy in 1961 when he dismissed an Israeli vote against South African apartheid at the United Nations, throwing blame and deflecting attention by saying, “Israel is not consistent in its new anti-apartheid attitude … th...