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Apartheid & Zionism: the same fight
June 10, 2025
When the Afrikaner nationalists, with an outspokenly fascist core at their centre, began to to move down the authoritarian slide toward fascism, South Africa saw the emergence of the Black Sash in 1956. These were women whose conscience bound them to protest about the erosion of the few vestiges of democracy left in what had […]
The psuedo science that poisons society
April 2, 2025
(First published by News24, South Africa) Pseudo-science, advancing racist, gender and ageist discrimination is a major problem that continues to be widely promoted on digital media. And one important area where it has a malign influence is on parental attitudes and on government policies, especially regarding children and education. Yet if we wish to build […]
Israeli media conceals Gaza’s horrors
March 20, 2025
This is the latest opinion piece in the Israeli newspaper, Haaretz. It is by Gideon Levy who shows, time and again, that there are still a few brave journalists in the Zionist state who adhere to the principles of journalism. Read and learn. Mar 20, 2025 To the list of crimes, one must now add […]
Echos of Hani & the Broederbond haunt ANC
August 31, 2020
By elevating the tactic of principled unity to the sole principle of unity at all costs, South Africa's governing ANC created the malaise that is destroying the party.
A slippery slope to fake news
August 23, 2020
However apparently small the publicly promoted distortion of history it makes for the start of a slippery slope in this era of widespread fake news. And it aids the growing distrust of the media.
Memories of nicotine deprivation
May 1, 2020
In Tanzania in 1981, the country's only cigarette factory ran out of paper — and the country ran out of cigarettes. The result revealed clearly just how addictive is nicotine: packs of cigarettes had buyers at 230 times to normal price and "puffs" on a single cigarette were sold on street corners.
Tax, war & the Covid-19 future
April 22, 2020
If, as governments and international in stitutions aroun d the world say, we are at war that is costing all economies dear, why is the historic means of funding such conflict — and financing the subsequent peace — not used? It seems to have been forgotten that wars and subsequent reconstruction were financed by taxing corporates and the rich.
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Murdering the future
June 22, 2025
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Murder is a very serious crime. And it is very clearly defined: to kill another person “with malice aforethought”. In other words, to plan to kill someone for whatever reason and then to carry out the intention is a serious violation. The same charge applies to those who pay or order someone else to carry […]