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 Scholz, prompting an investigation by Berlin police....

IN MANY respects Oscar van Heerden represents all that is wrong inside South African academia. Its de-emphasis of evidence-based research in favour of pure scholasticism. The rote repetition of other's opinions, in an uncritical process which edifies 'woke logic' and the writings of the country's...

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...

CHRIS ROPER WRITES "we need to demand accountability of beauty pageant contestants and governments alike. And consistency in their application of principle." Roper's views are decidedly patriarchal, old-fashioned, and redolent of gentlemen clubs and men's magazines. He thus appears to garner his...