RASHID Lombard was a photojournalist and political photographer at South Press. One of the struggle papers whose pages now form the background header of Medialternatives, right above this piece. Boeta Rashid practically took every image that appeared in the weekly paper, pushing out black and whi...

FOR DECADES those leading the challenge against race labeling, the idea that all individuals occupy distinct race categories defined in law, and backed by pseudo-scientific theories, for example the discredited multi-regionalist theory of human evolution, were predominantly by people of color. T...

BEYOND the Loony Toon Hate Parade, will a movement to defend the world against militant theocrats and odious Jew-haters emerge? Those who are quick to label any defense of secularism in the Middle East (or at home) as an 'illiberal plot' against the very progressive values they claim to hold so d...

THE Commission for the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Cultural, Religious and Linguistic Communities (CRL Rights Commission) is once again pushing for mechanisms to vet, license and regulate ALL religious organisations and leaders. Freedom of Religion South Africa maintains the proposa...

MORNING Yoga in a prison cell catapults me out of E-Section, the door literally unlocks itself as I am led away by a burly Afrikaner warden, only too pleased to see me. I am once again processed for the transport to Caledon Square, the holding cells at the Magistrates Courts, in which one is luck...