OPINION by Ibrahim Vawda – In the Kiswahili language the term “Maafa” means disaster, a terrible incident or a great tragedy. It is also used when referring to the centuries of suffering of people of African Heritage through slavery, imperialism, colonialism, oppression, exploitation and occupation. Similarly, these imperialistic, colonialist designs[…]
OPINION by Luke Coffey – In the late 1970s, the Soviet Union sent dozens of “advisers” to Afghanistan. By the early 1980s, these advisers turned into hundreds of thousands of troops who fought in a war that, in part, brought the Soviet Union to its knees. Today, Russia makes no[…]
OPINION by Dr. Aayesha J Soni – On reading the news that the ANC’s national executive committee on international relations Mr Obed Bapela conveyed regarding the leading party’s approach to dual citizenship, I was most pleasantly invoked with pride. That our country would take this visionary decision in preventing its[…]
OPINION by Noah Barkin – Returning from her summer break in mid-August, German Chancellor Angela Merkel raised some eyebrows by describing Europe’s refugee problem as a bigger challenge than the Greece crisis, which had overshadowed all else in the first half of 2015. No one in Germany is questioning her[…]
OPINION by Ibrahim Vawda – “A year-long investigation by the Daily Maverick’s DE WET POTGIETER has revealed surprising inaction by police despite incriminating evidence about secret military training camps and sophisticated sniper training at three well-documented locations as well as several others across South Africa. These subversive activities have taken[…]
OPINION by Robert Young Pelton – This summer a quarter of a million people fled across the Mediterranean by small ships and rafts. Lured by smugglers and forced onto discarded fishing boats, the migrants are directed to head north and call for help when they are past Libya’s Bouri oil[…]
OPINION by Marwan Bishara – Around the time of launching the Middle East negotiations in the 1990s, the BBC launched a new sitcom by the name of Keeping Up Appearances. The British comedy featured a comical and delusional middle-class woman by the name of Mrs Bucket, who conjured up stories[…]
OPINION by Khaled A Beydoun – On August 25, ESPN Major League Baseball (MLB) analyst Curt Schilling, a former player himself, issued a tweet that compared “Muslim extremists” to “Nazis”. The tweet inserted the vilification of Muslims into the world of sport. “The math is staggering when you get to[…]
OPINION by Cengiz Aktar – Right after Turkey’s June 7 parliamentary elections, I forecast the following: “Change will not come easily to Turkey. The ruling AKP doesn’t have enough seats to form a government on its own as it runs the risk of losing a potential vote of confidence. Coalitions[…]
OPINION by Iqbal Jassat In the wake of another Gupta-linked scandal involving a state of the art jet and Cyril Ramaphosa, which media exposed and covered extensively – rightly so – one wonders why the subdued attention given to the “Grabber”? No, its not to do with “grabbing” ladies’ behinds,[…]
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