Reaching out from the Global South
THE founder of the South Durban Community Environmental Alliance and 2014 Goldman Environmental Prize winner was killed in a road accident on Thursday. Desmond D’Sa, the Durban campaigner who closed a toxic waste dump and built an alliance that ou...
NEWS about a film called Hebrews to Negroes: Wake Up Black America has been circulating on social media under the banner of a “banned” documentary. The framing is wrong, and it matters that it is wrong. The facts are modest. The Film and Publication Board issued a “Refused Classification” ruling...
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 across farm murders, the new Expropriation Act, racia...
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...