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 l...
LATEGAN EXPOSED: Apartheid Diva, Mimi Coertse is dead, so what?
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...
King Canute from National Treasury commands crypto tide to retreat
Nazis bombed Bantu World
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...
Let’s not forget, ordinary Americans supported the Anti-Apartheid Movement
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...
Open letter to Prof Leslie London
Dear Leslie, I respond to your recent opinion piece in the Daily Maverick. During the landmark People's Health Assembly at UWC in 2011, I was struck by the words of the late Prof Emeritus David Saunders, during his opening address, ( in which he wore the Iraqi Keffiyeh associated with Palestinian...