It is a dishonest evasion to excuse the horrors of the Iranian regime on the grounds that some of its Western accusers have a tainted human rights record
Russia’s botched war of neo-colonial conquest in Ukraine, and Vladimir Putin’s mendacious justifications for it, bear the closest resemblance in our age to Hitler’s campaign for Lebensraum
The founder of Black Consciousness kept evolving; by the time of his terrible death he was moving away from hard-line racial isolationism. DREW FORREST traces his development in a seminal collection of writings
Christianity tells us to worry about hellfire; Bob Marley tells us ‘Don’t worry about a thing’. Drew Forrest looks at the Jamaican singer’s timeless appeal
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There are reasons not to emigrate or join the Little Trek back to the Cape Colony
A public art team aims to roll back the squalor and spiritual deformity of downtown Johannesburg. Its latest project looks for meaning in a senseless murder
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Some scholars have argued that gender-based violence has an evolutionary root, a controversial view of a universal problem
With the passing of Elizabeth II, the monarchy is set to lose credibility, visibility and popular appeal, according to recent polls
Drew Forrest argues that concerns about the Asian giant stem from its miserable human rights record and not the fraudulent notion of ‘sinophobia’
Throughout the ‘New Frame’ controversy, holier-than-thou bourgeois-baiters and obsessive players of the race card have shown why the hard left has condemned itself to the political margins