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State-orchestrated famine as genocide, however, has never been prosecuted as a crime.
HUMAN SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL OF

The world ignores Yemen’s humanitarian crisis

The state is using famine as a weapon of war but SA abstained in a UN human rights resolution

  • Mia Swart
4 min read
On the isolated occasion of being confronted with the rumour of paedophilia, Magnus Malan defiantly asked: “What is a paedophile?” (Ambrose Peters)
CHILD ABUSE

Bird Island child abuse: The truth will set us free

Apartheid’s ministers must account for their crimes and we too need to confront them

  • Mia Swart
6 min read
Resistance: Palestinians gather in support of Ahed Tamimi
AHED TAMIMI

Palestinian teenager’s chutzpah shames Israeli military

Ahed Tamimi’s arrest highlights the vulnerability of Palestinians

  • Mia Swart
4 min read
Professor Mia Swart writes that ‘there is nothing as powerful as youthful anger constructively employed’ and that that anger should lead to a culture of nonviolent protest.
FEESMUSTFALL

Campus security: Students are not the enemy

The securitisation of university campuses flies in the face of open debate and the freedom of expression.

  • Mia Swart
7 min read
MIA SWART

Let’s talk about collective guilt

For someone advocating for the silence of white South Africans, Samantha Vice is surprisingly vocal, writes <b>Mia Swart</b>.

  • Mia Swart
6 min read
MIA SWART

Ghosts of the past alive in the present

Apartheid reparations remain one of the unfinished legacies of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

  • Mia Swart
4 min read
JUDICIARY

Why is Zuma’s trial ‘political’?

The term political trial is difficult to define, but it usually takes the form of a criminal prosecution of a political opponent of the ruling party.

  • Mia Swart
4 min read