Rasool exposed on Piers Morgan
SEEING former Western Cape Premier, and ambassador to the USA, Ebrahim Rasool, prevaricating on Piers Morgan is perhaps one of the more entertaining episodes. In a hard-hitting interview it was clear from the outset the mental gymnastics from a former era, was not going to persuade Morgan, nor hi...
USA withdraws Pandor’s Visa
NALEDI Pandor the former foreign minister, who launched South Africa's ICJ case against Israel in the aftermath of Operation Al Aqsa Flood, has had her USA Visa revoked. This action by the US state department is for a number of reasons, chief of which is Pandor expressing a willingness to extend...
Opposition to race-labeling comes full circle
FOR DECADES those leading the challenge against race labeling, the idea that all individuals occupy distinct race categories defined in law, and backed by pseudo-scientific theories, for example the discredited multi-regionalist theory of human evolution, were predominantly by people of color. T...
Its been 28 years since South Africa launched SunSat
SUNSAT, an advanced microsatellite developed by students at Stellenbosch University in South Africa, was launched by NASA from Vandenberg Airforce Base on a Delta II rocket in May of 1997. Its been 28 years since our first satellite. And 23 years since Mark Shuttleworth became the first South Afr...