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 lead away by a large 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 luc...

News item, Checkers has launched South Africa’s first ‘smart’ shopping trolley that will do away with the cashier. To those alarmed at the prospect this will put thousands of cash till operators and packers out of work, have no fear people, your job was never real, nor certain to begin with. As b...

ITS been quite a week in SA politics. Not only did we see the sudden passing of former deputy President David Mabuza, but the DA walked out of the much-vaunted "National Dialogue", labeling the event as an 'extravagant and costly affair'. The party stopped short of leaving the coalition governme...