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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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...
Let’s not forget, ordinary Americans supported the Anti-Apartheid Movement
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...
Bozell: Those aren’t asks, they’re demands
Ramphele’s grand inquisition proceeds
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 deprive Jews of rights ordinarily enjoyed by others. O...
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...