IT WAS South Africa's Hendrick Verwoerd who first resorted to the apartheid analogy in 1961 when he dismissed an Israeli vote against South African apartheid at the United Nations, throwing blame and deflecting attention by saying, “Israel is not consistent in its new anti-apartheid attitude … th...

WITH the colors of Pan Arabism and the words 'Palestine' written in bold, Johannesburg's new major Thapelo Amad made his inaugural appearance. The politician and imam is a member of the far-right, minority Al Jama-ah (Arabic: الجماعة, lit. 'the Congregation') party, which has found itself with a...

IN 2010 I led evidence in a South African court that 'Judaism was not monolithic', or to use the parlance of Amma Khalid (see link below) 'monothetic', i.e based on a single basic idea or principle. There were many different expressions of Judaism I told the court, in particular there were those...

NEVER in my wildest dreams would I expect to be confronted by a 'woke' self-proclaimed Anti-Racist in my own home over the festive season. The young man from New York, is "studying colonialism and apartheid', proceeds to challenge me with some academic BS, by throwing race labels around. In parti...

TON VOSLOO, the former Naspers chairman, appears to have suddenly realised that he is 'living in a different country'. A piece published by Tammy Petersen of News24 carries details of his sudden change of heart, in which he selectively refers to events effecting the company's standing in relation...

IN A VOICE recording taken by a pupil, Asanda Ngoasheng, the principal facilitator of a controversial diversity course held at Fish Hoek High School can be heard saying 'Black people can be mean, they can be cruel, they can be prejudiced, they can be nasty, but they can never be racist against wh...