THIS MONTH'S Nakba Day commemorations — marking 78 years since the displacement of Palestinians during Israel's 1948 War of Independence — were supposed to be occasions for solemn remembrance. Instead, they produced two embarrassing episodes that, taken together, illustrate something more signifi...

SOME TIME AGO I arrived late at a panel discussion on Israel and Palestine hosted by one Terry Crawford-Brown. Readers my remember the Irish banker and former spokesperson for the Anglican Church, whose credibility was left in tatters after he attempted to pin the blame for Chris Hani's assassina...

IT WASN'T just the US Civil Rights movement and its leaders like Jesse Jackson who supported the anti-apartheid struggle. The truth is, hundreds of ordinary Americans, sent money, literature and goodwill to the movement within our country. Watching President Ramaphosa address the Jackson funeral...

Dear Leslie, I respond to your recent opinion piece in the Daily Maverick. During the landmark People's Health Assembly at UWC in 2011, I was struck by the words of the late Prof Emeritus David Saunders, during his opening address, ( in which he wore the Iraqi Keffiyeh associated with Palestinian...

Ntsiki Mazwai's "Moyo Space" claims to be 'a social cohesion space', and yet it is anything but safe when it comes to Jews. Yesterday, she blocked me from attending her sessions, the latest has as its starting point the Film & Publications Board (FPB) refusal to certify a propaganda film that rep...