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...

CONTRIBUTIONS by two correspondents published on Politicsweb demonstrate the diametrically opposed views on the existence of Israel as a "democratic state with a Jewish character". Roy Iscawowitz has taken Milton Shain to task for reiterating the manner in which the country sprung to life after t...

THE MISS UNIVERSE pageant was not the subject of a boycott when it was held in apartheid South Africa. In fact, the oft referred to event never occurred, and was never scheduled. Our country does not appear as a location on the list of Miss Universe pageants held every year since 1952 — except fo...

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...

IF YOU think replacing an Haraam Israel with an Halaal Palestine is the great moral issue of our time, instead of bothering to grapple with the complex secular versus religious issues involved in the region, and the resulting Jerusalem problematic which has caused me to label the real issues a tr...

IN1961, the South African prime minister and architect of South Africa's apartheid policies, Hendrik Verwoerd, was reported to have dismissed an Israeli vote against South African apartheid at the United Nations, saying, "Israel is not consistent in its new anti-apartheid attitude … they took Isr...