OPINION by Iqbal Jassat – The dawn of winter in South Africa marks a drop in temperature as is nature’s norm. However, in direct contrast, temperatures are rising in the country’s diplomatic arena. Thanks to Israel and Egypt, heat generated by their foolish actions may offset some of South Africa’s[…]
OPINION by Shafiq Morton – What country in its right mind would bomb another from the air with no boots on the ground? What country would attack a people who are its enemy’s enemy to get at its other enemy? The answer is Saudi Arabia. The invaded people are the[…]
OPINION by Eddie Cottle When South African security services prevented a Cape Town girl from boarding a plane allegedly to join ISIS, many South Africans were pleased but at the same time surprised at how swift the reaction of our security services were. How come the same reaction is not[…]
OPINION by April Longley Alley – Yemenis have long suspected the Saudis of pursuing polices that keep their country weak but not so weak that its internal problems spill across the border. If this was ever the case, the new Saudi rulers seem to have jettisoned their approach. They have[…]
OPINION by Aayesha Soni – A story regarding the attack of an author, Zainub Dala, supposedly inspired by her public lauding of Salman Rushdie has been making the rounds. I am stunned a story loaded with so many insinuations and extrapolations of the facts has even been published. It most[…]
OPINION by Andriques Che Petersen – The classic, and overused, cliché goes: ‘Where there’s smoke, there’s fire’ and at this very moment in time we find ourselves occupying, the University of Cape Town, where there is a cloud of smog pointing towards a bevy of flames pulsating underground. And when[…]
OPINION by Neve Gordon – Benjamin Netanyahu is truly a magician. Just this past Friday, most polls indicated that his Likud party would likely receive around 21 seats in the Israeli Knesset, four seats less than Yitzhak (Bougie) Herzog’s Zionist Camp (Labor Party’s new name). Revelations of corruption at the[…]
OPINION by Jamal Doumani – Visit, as I did recently, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York (The Met, to New Yorkers), the largest art museum in the US and one of the 10 largest in the world. Seek out its permanent collection of Islamic art, a trove of[…]
OPINION by Iqbal Jassat- Racism wins. These two words encapsulate the results of Israel’s latest election. Though early exit polls indicated a tie between the two contesting blocs, official election returns give Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud a more decisive margin of victory. “Against all odds: a great victory for[…]
OPINION by Dr Firoz Osman – The Israeli elections taking place on Tuesday 17th March has aroused interest because the incumbent PM Bibi Netanyahu seems to be fighting for his political life. These elections will have minimal impact for the oppressed Palestinians living under the yoke of Apartheid Israeli regime since[…]
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