Reaching out from the Global South
IN 2011 Italian programmer Alberto Brandolini coined what would become known as Brandolini's law, or the asymmetry principle. He contrasted the considerable effort of debunking misinformation with the relative ease of creating it in the first plac...
NELSON MANDELA’S most-quoted line on Palestine travels the world redacted and stripped of company: “We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians.” It appears on murals and banners as though it were the whole of his position. It was delivered on 4 Decembe...
A PIECE by Hassan Lorgat published by IOL mischaracterises two cases involving UCT professor Adam Mendelsohn. In the first instance, he takes issue with Tali Feinberg's article in Jewish Report on Mendelsohn v Choritz, in the second he condones Megan Choritz's crude criticism of the Mendelsohn le...
The anointed, self-appointed, savior of the 'white race', Pieter Kriel, whose past gesticulations on issues to do with Afrikanerdom (involving ritual cleansing of his ancestors guilt), provided him with a pulpit, has now chosen to target black Jews and African Zionists. In the process Kriel displ...
ABDULLAH IBRAHIM, the Cape Town-born pianist whom Nelson Mandela called "our Thelonious Monk" died peacefully in Germany on June 15, 2026, following a short illness, surrounded by loved ones. He was 91. He had last performed barely three months earlier, on March 27, at the Cape Town International...
I ENCOURAGE readers to condemn Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) for targeting businesses merely because some directors happen to be Jewish. There are no 'Cape Union Mart' branches, as its name implies, within Israel, and no connection other than some directors happen to be Jewish. PSG have fai...