Off the bat, I admit it, I am no fan of Howard Feldman and ChaiFM. If you're into over-privileged Jozi Jews. Do a google search and you'll come up with the bizarre statistic that wait for it: "Most of the (live) Jews in Johannesburg can be found i...
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Most of all I am offended as a Secularist
IN 2010 I led evidence in a South African court that 'Judaism was not monolithic', or to use the parlance of Amma Khalid (see link below) 'monothetic', i.e based on a single basic idea or principle. There were many different expressions of Judaism I told the court, in particular there were those...
Yes, Adriaan Basson is automatically a racist
BOUWER van Niekerk, a Johannesburg-based attorney penned an opinion on a statement this month, written by a group of concerned advocates who "were outraged by what they viewed as racist attitudes toward black legal practitioners." In the process he unwittingly raises a point in law, regarding the...
Zondogate, Arthur Fraser, Adriaan Basson, Media Spy Saga
IT'S A SCANDAL that has been brewing for quite some time, revelations that the Zuma Administration engaged in dirty tricks operations targeting South Africa's newsrooms, activists, NGOs and anyone opposing his faction within the ruling party. Millennials will probably not be aware of the Informat...
Living in the Heart of Kakness
THE JOKE about apartheid was that 'if you were white you could be reclassified coloured, and if you were coloured you could be reclassified black', but 'no blacks became white and no whites became black'. Apartheid race classification never worked, precisely because many people fell through the g...
Hertzogate: No evidence tobacco assists patients with respiratory illness
COLUMNIST Mandy Wiener has written an opinion piece for News24 entitled: 'The case for lifting the cigarette ban' Her central thesis is that the 'prohibition on smoking tobacco merely drives the practice underground'. While Wiener appears to grasp some of the health arguments being touted by the...