IT was Sartre who remarked: “If the Jew did not exist, the anti-Semite would invent him.” The French philosopher's seminal work Anti-Semite and Jew: An Exploration of the Etiology of Hate details the manner in which Anti-Semites objectify and depr...
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General Rudzani Maphwanya & the creeping coup orchestrated by Iran
IT WAS during the height of the sanctions campaign against apartheid South Africa that the country under PW Botha reached out to Iran in what became known as the 'Arms for Oil Deal': Initially, Iran under the Shah's regime had close economic and security ties with South Africa, including signific...
South Africa’s trade pivot bungle
IMAGINE an alternative future if you will. A future in which our country instead of wedding itself to BRICS maintained its focus on leading the African continent — the BRICS bloc is really nothing more than a proxy for China's controversial 'belt and road' initiative. Formed on 9 July 2002, the A...
Palestine Solidarity targets South African Jews for being Jews
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 Jordan, Palestine, Western Sahara), and placards cla...
DA walks out of Presidential Monologue on Palestine
ITS been quite a week in SA politics. Not only did we see the sudden passing of former deputy President David Mabuza, but the DA walked out of the much-vaunted "National Dialogue", labeling the event as an 'extravagant and costly affair'. The party stopped short of leaving the coalition governme...
Zille and all that Mmusi Jazz
IT WAS inevitable that the opposition Democratic Alliance would arrive at its own Rubicon. The saga involving party stalwart Helen Zille, what she said or didn't say, what was meant or not meant, the affectations of white liberal insiders, the embarrassing grand old colonial edifice and all its p...