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The BDS committee was formed in 2005 and has the support of more than 170 organisations in Palestine. (AFP)

Supporting BDS is a way to honour the Palestinian struggle

Boycotts and sanctions against Israel are a vote for nonviolence, democracy and self-determination

Barrier to progress: The ANC appears to have lost its appetite for intelligent debate.

ANC loses its voice in national debates

Critical issues cut to the heart of the party’s recent record, which is perhaps why its leaders are failing to speak out.

Time to come clean on party funding

South Africa is about to enter into the biggest ever public-procurement processes in its history — involving Eskom and Transnet.

We have a right to know who funds Zuma family

Our president has a colourful private life and while it might be simpler, we cannot simply tune out of the soap opera.

Redlining to be outlawed

The Ministry of Housing is squaring up against banks and financial institutions to force them to provide loans to lower-income people and those living in redlined areas such as…

Auditors to be called to account

Enron, Worldcom, Xerox, Merck: capitalism is finally catching up with itself. Whether this is true is probably part of a larger ideological question. What is certain is that…

Who will guard the guardians?

Perhaps a moral regeneration summit is appropriate in a country where prison warders allegedly sanction the abuse of young children for a pittance and prisons become places where…

Punishing crimes against humanity

According to the United Nations, most perpetrators of war crimes and crimes against humanity throughout history have gone unpunished. In spite of the World War II tribunals and…

Parastatals called to account

State-owned enterprises will have to be more responsive to the needs of the communities they serve if recommendations made by the second King report on corporate governance are…