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The Israel debate in South Africa
Controversial article by Peter Beinart published in the Daily Beast claims there is no significant Reform movement in South Africa, that all South Africa’s Jews are Zionists:- “South Africa is America...
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SADF service cross
The South African Military Veterans Association of Australasia (SAMVOA) released this service cross over the 2013 Easter Weekend, supposedly in recognition of service by white conscripts on behalf of...
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200 000 year old Metropolis found in South Africa
“They have always been there. People noticed them before. But no one could remember who made them — or why? Until just recently, no one even knew how many there were. Now they are everywhere —...
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Nelson Mandela, the Kemal Ataturk of South Africa
With the events of Taksim square fresh in my mind, it strikes me that Nelson Mandela is the Kemal Ataturk of South Africa. For starters, our country’s first president is a non-sectarian father of a...
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South Africa’s micro political parties, what future?
PROPORTIONAL representation, a system adopted by South Africa in 1994, guarantees minority parties are included in the political dispensation. It works for small parties such as Agang, Cope and PAC...
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Energy commons a way out of Eskom’s debt trap?
OPPOSITION leaders, including Musi Maimane and Mosiuoa Lekota have called for an end to the anti-privatisation fiasco, but the solutions on the table need not entail the wholesale privatisation of...
View ArticleCape Peninsula transport plan: Here are some alternatives
CAPE TOWN has a transport framework plan, but does it work for the Cape Flats and Southern Peninsula, where daily traffic jams, and peak hour gridlock are compounded by a Metrorail service that is...
View ArticleJanice Gassam’s ‘How Communities Of Color Perpetuate Anti-Blackness’
Dear Ed,Janice Gassam’s ‘How Communities Of Color Perpetuate Anti-Blackness’ Jul 19, 2020, refers.I live in a country that for many has come to symbolise both institutional racism, and a remarkable...
View ArticleModernise SA economy to eliminate white elephants and graft to protect retail...
IF YOU happen to follow the tech sector on Wall Street, you may have noticed two prominent stock splits announced over the past two weeks. The first by Apple, a 4 -for-1 split, and the second by...
View ArticleThe rise of the alcohol prohibition and temperance consortium
A CAMPAIGN to eliminate or reduce the availability of alcohol under the guise of recent public health policy interventions appears to be under way. Bolstered by the ban on alcohol sales in terms of...
View ArticleRevisiting Eskom Liberalisation and the Energy Commons
ALMOST a decade ago, I started openly talking about an Energy Commons yet plans mooted for splitting up Eskom remain stalled. One plan calls for splitting the parastatel into two units, another into...
View ArticleLiving in the Heart of Kakness
THE JOKE about apartheid was that ‘if you were white you could be reclassified coloured, and if you were coloured you could be reclassified black’, but ‘no blacks became white and no whites became...
View ArticleDear Mmusi Maimane
Dear Mmusi Maimane, Your recent comments about race in particular your statement about ‘multiracialism’ refers. It was PW Botha, the arch proponent of multiracialism, who advocated three separate...
View ArticleSenekal: Time for genuine Fair Trade Certification and income equalisation?
IT IS easy to become cynical following the events surrounding Senekal over the past two weeks. On the one hand, extremists who justify farm murders by driving an overtly racist Afro-chauvinist...
View ArticleTrevor Manual, spare us the BS
BEING HALF-RIGHT, often means being half-wrong. Former finance minister Trevor Manual, the man who seemingly quit politics to take-up a lucrative job at NM Rothchilds, a company in bed with the...
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