ONE of my jazz history interviews destroyed by Media24, was with none other than the Josh & Robert Sithole family. Attempts by my attorneys to regain access to the material in 2016 stalled upon the issue of the terms of a contract that does not ex...
Repealed legislation from 1950 now used to classify employees by race
Sakeliga and NEASA release a statement this week confirming that "South Africa’s Department of Employment and Labour is instructing employers to apply the long-repealed 1950 Population Registration Act to racially classify their employees." The unlawful instruction, apparently delivered by the De...
Holocaust Museum & the Megan Choritz Megaphone
MEGAPHONE-mouth Megan Choritz appears to have become a permanent installation outside Cape Town's Holocaust Museum. An institution that deals exclusively with the past and which has nothing to do with Israel as such, is being picketed on a weekly basis by the Qatari-based 'Jews for a Free Palesti...
Hamba Kahle, Boeta Rashid Lombard
RASHID Lombard was a photojournalist and political photographer at South Press. One of the struggle papers whose pages now form the background header of Medialternatives, right above this piece. Boeta Rashid practically took every image that appeared in the weekly paper, pushing out black and whi...
South Africa imports UN apartheid convention, whilst rewriting its terms
A PRIVATE-MEMBERS bill sponsored by Imran Ismail-Moosa MP of Al Jama-ah party claims to domesticate the 1973 UN Apartheid Convention. The bill's aim is anything but the domestication of the apartheid convention. The UN 'Convention on the Suppression of the Crime of Apartheid' as it was implemente...