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Sõzarn Barday
Cape Town should not sacrifice its water for data centres
As the Western Cape champions data centres as the 'engine of the future economy,' this article critically examines the hidden cost: water. Drawing parallels with water-scarce…
Empire by another name
Under international law, regime change, coercive economic measures and military intervention are unlawful unless authorised by the UN Security Council
Why Marwan Barghouti’s name matters
Hamas’s demand for Barghouti’s release reflects his symbolic and political weight
From Rome to Gaza: How power distracts, censors and controls
Palestine today is not merely a geographic site of struggle; it is a mirror reflecting humanity’s oldest contest — between power and truth, silence and expression, spectacle and…
US think tank vs South Africa’s solidarity with Palestine
Organisation urges pressure on the country, citing ties with Hamas
South Africa is sleepwalking into becoming a surveillance state
Facial recognition technology is widespread, eroding privacy and anonymity, echoing apartheid-era controls, with lax legal enforcement
The mask of apartheid – privatisation
The state once enforced exclusion through law, now racial inequality is decentralised and enforced by private actors through economics, technology, the law, capital and technology
Economic apartheid: South Africa’s transition a warning for a two-state agreement for Palestine
South Africa may have attained political emancipation but economically the chains largely remain
Israel’s offensive in Iran breaches the Geneva Conventions
The airstrikes are about more than Iran’s nuclear capacity; they are aimed at the network of supporters of Palestinians’ right to exist
Digital occupation: How surveillance technologies repress dissent from Gaza to Cape Town
This creeping form of observation marks a dangerous evolution in how power is exercised and dissent controlled
Watching from above: Surveillance in Cape Town
As Cape Town continues its investment in digital security infrastructure, the challenge lies in balancing innovation with accountability, and enforcement with the protection of…
Nakba 2.0: The catastrophe continues
Seventy-seven years ago hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were forcibly evicted from their homes. Since then they remain under siege in the West Bank and Gaza, where 50,000…
Stolen childhoods: Israel’s war on Palestinian children
The illegal detention of children and their physical and psychological abuse, is a deliberate strategy to rob Palestine of its future
Red Sea on fire: US bombs Yemen as Houthis target Israeli-linked ships
The United States is planning to increase its military presence in the Middle East
Lessons for Israel from South Africa
There are many parallels between apartheid South Africa and Israel today — perhaps a one-state solution is not that far away