Last week a weighty tome released by the controversial UN Human Rights Council arrived on my desk. The council you may recall, is controversial for its appointment of Ali Bahreini, Ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Iran to chair its 2023 socia...
UN Report alleges Israel committed Genocide by attacking Gaza on 7/10
M&G apologises over ‘white genocide’ claim
JUST how out-to-lunch South Africa's media are, can be seen by how the Mail & Guardian have been forced to issue a retraction and apology. On 6 August 2025, the publication published an article under the headline “Mbalula dares US to bring on sanctions against ANC leaders” . "The article incorrec...
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...
Here’s to indolence, leisure and the death of work
News item, Checkers has launched South Africa’s first ‘smart’ shopping trolley that will do away with the cashier. To those alarmed at the prospect this will put thousands of cash till operators and packers out of work, have no fear people, your job was never real, nor certain to begin with. As b...
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...