IT'S BEEN quite a week. 7 days after Salman Rushdie was stabbed by an assailant and rushed to hospital where he remains on the critical list, Mahmoud Abbas was drawing fire for comments he made at a press conference alongside German Chancellor Sch...
Tag: Human Rights
Sorry Herr Prof Karim, your vaccine mandate argument is worse than apartheid-era paternalism
IT IS more than a little ironic that during the 20th Anniversary of the Durban Conference Against Racism, Professor Salim Abdool Karim appears to advocate a case of dominica potestas, that most ancient of power relations between master and slave articulated during the period of colonial rule, in...
Whither SA democracy under successive Covid lockdowns?
SOUTH AFRICA'S bitter experience with successive states of emergency during apartheid, resulted in a liberal Constitution which aimed to avoid a political dictatorship. The executive is thus bound by a dispensation which enshrines democratic rights and freedoms even during an emergency or disaste...
2010 rights watch – Fifa restricting civil rights
A DRACONIAN Cape Town City Bylaw could outlaw indoor gatherings of more than 50 people where microphones, Ipods, and and ghetto blasters are used and if the result is amplified sound , even if the event happens in the comfort of your living room, consider it an offence without a license. The prop...
HEADBLOG: Is Triangle Project Guilty of Gender Discrimination?
THE Triangle Project recently placed advertising in local newspapers calling for "gays and lesbians" to continue the struggle for same-sex marriage rights — thus continuing a long tradition in South Africa's alternative community of distinguishing gays from lesbians. Is this sheer perversit...
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