Adam Haupt's stock ideas are derivative and contrived. Deserve to be rejected by anyone supporting freedom of expression. There is no rock without drums. Without the cross-pollination of African rhythms, there would be no jazz music, and likewise hip hop. Ditto, Die Antwoord. In a piece published...

Dear Ms Naledi Pandor, Your campaign to exclude the Jewish African Diaspora from the African Union refers. That I live in a country with an egregious history of involvement and support for Hitler's policies of mass extermination of Jews, should not have to be the starting point for a debate in So...

THERE is an astonishing contradiction at the heart of the latest Amnesty International Report on Israel, one deserving further analysis. Resolving it, could be the key to unlocking a potential solution. Ignoring it, could mean, business as usual, since the document's omission of history and demog...

SOME get what Whoopi was trying to say: 'Slavery wasn't about race, Apartheid wasn't about race, the Holocaust wasn't about race. It was about man's inhumanity to man.' (Or in the case of Leni Riefenstahl, woman's inhumanity to woman). Except, that wasn't exactly what she was saying. The wording...

Dear Ed The DA is becoming the poster child of the Right, (Mail & Guardian 18 October 2021) refers Steven Friedman claims to be a 'political scientist'. Though his career and professorship may appear to chart a course within South Africa's academic establishment, he merely demonstrates the paroch...

SOUTH AFRICA'S corrupt legal authority Halton Cheadle is at it again. Readers may remember the erstwhile 'labour czar', a man who in 2010 sought to determine a labour court decision in favour of his own client and business associates, in the process shooting down the TRC Report and inter alia alt...