ON SUNDAY Heinz Winckler, a local Pastor, posted images of what appears to be a Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) demonstration outside Cape Union Mart, in Canal Walk, Cape Town. The demonstrators can be seen holding Pan Arab flags (common to Jo...
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Thoughts following Reconciliation Day
ON 16 December 1995, the first celebration of 'Reconciliation Day" took place. It was timed to coincide with the inaugural meeting of the 'South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission'. Convenor Desmond Tutu described the holiday as 'serving the need of healing the wounds of Apartheid'. The...
Replacement theology at heart of Middle East conflict
OUR COUNTRY to its credit has enacted legislation to suppress both apartheid and racism. Proposals by the Palestine Solidarity Committee (PSC) for introduction of a bill which will 'domesticate' the 1973 United Nations International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apa...
Minister Pandora: South Africa is sleepwalking into a catastrophe
NOT content with promoting human rights (an objective which seems to change from country to country), South Africa has taken it upon itself to interdict a single party to a conflict whose seeming binary nature is the source of major global tensions. On the one side, a group of Jihadists whose cha...
Paradox of the Gatekeepers of War
THE WORLD is embroiled in a conflict over the meaning of war, the right of self-defense, non-aggression and armed struggle, the very institutions of peace, justice and global harmony. Having taken Israel to the ICJ and gained interim measures, none of which involve a direct ceasefire order (the o...
South Africa’s Cherry-picking Genocide case before the International Courts
IN 2016 South African Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development Michael Masutha confirmed during a media briefing that South Africa had submitted to the United Nations (UN) its 'notice of intention to withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC)' Readers should note here, the ICC...