Reaching out from the Global South
NO SOONER had the principal of the posh girls school, Roedean resigned, following a debacle over tennis, where the school at first refused to play Jewish scholars at King David, "because they were Jewish", then issued a series of communiques befor...
FOR DECADES South Africans from across the political spectrum paid lip-service to the so-called 'two-state solution' in the Middle East. Pandering to universal notions of human rights, racial equality and justice for all. Following the passing of our nation's founder, Nelson Mandela, whose ideal...
THIS past week has been quite a storm of racist invective aimed at Jews in general, and Israel in particular. It appears an Anglican girls tennis team had refused to play King David in Linksfield, due to the Jewish school's association with Zionism (too many Stars of David?), and following repres...
WHEN some Steers employees were seen doing gardening outside a franchise in a viral video, Mzanzi social media erupted. Steers were quick to issue a statement saying, among other measures, "the franchisee at their Menlo Park outlet had been issued a formal notice, and all managers at the restaura...
ONE of my jazz history interviews destroyed by Media24, was with none other than the Josh & Robert Sithole family. Attempts by my attorneys to regain access to the material in 2016 stalled upon the issue of the terms of a contract that does not exist. The contract held up by Media24 during the 20...
Sakeliga and NEASA release a statement this week confirming that "South Africa’s Department of Employment and Labour is instructing employers to apply the long-repealed 1950 Population Registration Act to racially classify their employees." The unlawful instruction, apparently delivered by the De...