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...
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...
Presidential Monologue fails to gain an electoral mandate.
THE President's quest for an extra-Parliamentary mandate in the face of ANC failure to gain a Parliamentary majority, necessitating a ruling coalition, is failing to persuade anyone. In delivering his political sermon today, Ramaphosa appeared to be seeking a mandate beyond the ruling coalition,...
10 South African inventions
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...