The fires have been burning for months. Migrants are beaten in the streets, schoolchildren riot against foreign classmates, and a charismatic activist whips crowds into a frenzy with warnings that foreigners will "say they discovered us." Yet for...
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SAA Ignored Severe Storm Warnings, Pushed SA313 to Near-Disaster
Cape Town: South African Airways has come under sharp criticism after Flight SA313 came perilously close to a fuel emergency during last week’s violent Cape storm, despite clear and timely severe weather warnings issued by the South African Weather Service (SAWS). The airline’s decision to procee...
LATEGAN EXPOSED: Apartheid Diva, Mimi Coertse is dead, so what?
IN A PIECE entitled The Queen of the Night falls silent — legendary soprano Mimi Coertse dies, writer Herman Lategan introduces a chain of hagiographic fantasy that reduces Coertse's unashamed collaboration and open association with the apartheid regime's lead tenor, Gé Korsten, to a mere "fraugh...
South Africa’s Bold New AI Policy: Game-Changer or a Taxpayer-Funded Time Bomb?
THE Department of Communications and Digital Technologies has published a sweeping draft 'National Artificial Intelligence Policy' that aims to put South Africa at the forefront of the global AI revolution. But nothing could be further from the truth. Buried in the fine print is a proposal that s...
Repealed legislation from 1950 now used to classify employees by race
Sakeliga and NEASA release a statement this week confirming that "South Africa’s Department of Employment and Labour is instructing employers to apply the long-repealed 1950 Population Registration Act to racially classify their employees." The unlawful instruction, apparently delivered by the De...
Opposition to race-labeling comes full circle
FOR DECADES those leading the challenge against race labeling, the idea that all individuals occupy distinct race categories defined in law, and backed by pseudo-scientific theories, for example the discredited multi-regionalist theory of human evolution, were predominantly by people of color. T...