Reaching out from the Global South
SOME TIME AGO I arrived late at a panel discussion on Israel and Palestine hosted by one Terry Crawford-Brown. Readers my remember the Irish banker and former spokesperson for the Anglican Church, whose credibility was later destroyed after he att...
UNLIKE the majority faith group who are Christians, most Jews experience what I refer to as baseline Anti-Semitism, hostility towards Jewish identity that is so prevalent it is background noise or weather. 7/10 merely emboldened what was already latent within our supposedly tolerant, free societi...
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...
On this day, the offices of The Bantu World, were bombed in 1942. The offices of The Bantu World were bombed by the Ossewabrandwag, a pro-Nazi Afrikaner nationalist group opposing South Africa's WWII alliance with the Allies. OverviewThe offices of The Bantu World newspaper, a prominent publicati...
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...