Apartheid Policing, now and then: Political activist, Solomon Modipane, died 1969, the reason the police gave was "slipped on a piece of soap and fatally injured himself". Political activist, Ahmed Timol, died 1971, The excuse "fell from the 10th floor window" at the John Vorster Square police st...

Human Rights Day this year marks exactly 10 years since the final TRC recommendations were handed over to then-President Thabo Mbeki. Civil society says there is a significant amount of unfinished business relating to these recommendations with issues like reparations, compensation, and prosecuti...

BLAMING the Jews has become a national sport in South Africa. Instead of taking the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) to the next level and prosecuting perpetrators of crimes against humanity it has become convenient to simply blame the Jews for apartheid. The latest incident in which ANC...

The Cape Town World Music Festival (CWM Festival) has begun in the face of a call to boycott the festival. The Boycott Divestment and Sanctions campaign (BDS) has released a statement saying "We have recently learned that the Cape Town World Music Festival  has crossed and violated the internatio...

ON JANUARY 13, 1898 the newspaper L'Aurore published a letter by the writer Emile Zola. Addressed to the French president, it accused the government of anti-Semitism and the unlawful jailing of Alfred Dreyfus a French Army General Staff officer sentenced to penal servitude for life for espionage....

Aubrey Levin, a former South Africa Defence Force chief psychiatrist who used electroshock therapy to "cure" homosexual soldiers during the apartheid regime, is on trial in Canada for allegedly sexually assaulting 10 male patients. A Calgary court was shown graphic video Thursday that was recorde...