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Thabo Bester, convicted of rape and murder, is awaiting trial for his escape from prison and related offences, lost his urgent application to have access to a laptop and other devices to prepare for his deportation case as well as for his criminal trial. This should not be surprising. He turned to the Gauteng High […]

The Basic Education Laws Amendment Act has received the assent of President Cyril Ramaphosa. However, the new Amendment to the laws in its current form has drawn mixed reactions and responses from the public, civil society and within the government of National Unity. The president approved the bill at the Union Buildings in Pretoria on

The Israelis continue to wage war in Gaza and repress the West Bank. The latest round of negotiations for a ceasefire have reached an impasse. Add to this the deaths of six of the Israeli hostages in Gaza, protests erupted in Israel. Israeli protestors have taken to the streets and demand that Prime Minister Benyamin

Long time politician and former anti-apartheid activist Pravin Gordhan has died after a complex battle with cancer that saw an end to his career in public service to South Africa. His age was 75. Gordhan who held three different positions in the nation’s cabinet, won plaudits and rousing approval for standing up to then President

President Cyril Ramaphosa to sign a land mark legislation into law known as the Basic Education Laws Amendment (Bela) Bill on the 13 of September Friday today, in a public ceremony in Pretoria. The contents of the bill have proven to be contentious, with split support and opinions, especially from the Democratic Alliance which is

The regime of Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi has been using citizenship revocation as a political tool to punish and even to silence its opponents and critics alike. Any Egyptian who possesses dual nationality, and is critical of the Egyptian government under El-Sisi in any way could have their Egyptian citizen revoked by decree of

The eThekwini Municipality is facing a crippling shortage of fresh and clean water in some areas. Now the Democratic Alliance (DA) caucus in the Municipal Council has called on the Water and Sanitation Minister and wrote to eThekwini metro’s head of water and sanitation to intervene, as parts of the city and surrounding area spend

The man who managed the Sanctions on Iran under former US president Barack Obama, Richard Nephew an adjunct fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, made it clear in an article that nowadays, with respect to the new strategic developments and challenges which are tangible more than ever to for the execution of

This is a writhing saga that knows no end. The saga of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Palestinian scholar Yasmin Daher speaks in an interview with George Yancy about the power of prejudice and its practice in the Zionist entity of Israel in her book Black Bodies, White Gazes. Based in part on Frantz Fanon’ Black Skin,

Earlier in the week, eThekwini municipality said the bulk supplier provided it with less water through the Durban Heights Treatment Works. The municipality says they found large amounts of algae clogging the filters, leaving one bulk pipeline open to move water to the city’s reservoirs. The result is water is going into the system at