Reaching out from the Global South
IN March 2025, Somali-born writer and activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali sat down with South African human rights lawyer Mark Oppenheimer for an episode of her podcast titled “South Africa in Decline.” The conversation, later uploaded to YouTube, ranged acr...
NAVI PILLAY is so brazen about her deception in which she airbrushes out the hostages, erroneously accuses Israel of starting a war on 7/10 with a conclusion of genocide, that we're literally having to pinch ourselves. In what alternate universe does one get awarded a Nobel Prize for issuing cant...
THERE is something delightfully South African about the latest privacy panic over AirPods: apparently, the technology has become so dangerously sophisticated that you may soon need permission to hear what is being said in the room you are standing in. A recent MyBroadband article warns without an...
RODNEY Plett's statement today settles what happened outside a Norwood synagogue on Yom Kippur: he swore at Abdur Rahamaan Aziz and made remarks invoking Israel and Muslims that he now calls "hurtful and wrong." That much, the footage and statement agree on. What's being built on top of that admi...
THE Western Cape High Court has handed down a judgment that will likely reshape how activist campaigns in South Africa frame allegations against corporate targets — even as it stops well short of settling the underlying political dispute that sparked it. Judge Cloete's ruling, delivered on 4 Sept...