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An expensive lesson for the Western World
By Chloe MalulekeWhen the full text of the 14-point Memorandum of Understanding between the United States and Iran was released, analysts expecting the language of a balanced peace agreement found something rather different. What the document describes, point by...
March and March came to Wynberg on Saturday 20 June
By Zubeida JafferThe first anti-immigrant march in the southern suburbs of the Cape was set to start in Wynberg at 9a.m and end at Newlands at 3p.m. I am a resident of Wynberg and joined the gathered group shortly after 9a.m identifying myself as a reporter. The...
Remembering June 16
By Zubeida JafferTo protest against the killings of schoolchildren in Soweto on June 16, 1976,the people of the Cape joined the nationwide call for a stayaway four years later. This is their story.
A boy on a mat on the floor in Lagos
He grew up in one room. Not one room to himself — one room shared with nine brothers and sisters, in a polygamous family on Lagos Island, Nigeria. They slept on mats on the floor. His parents had nothing to spare. University tuition was an impossible dream. He was...
J M Coetzee praises NWASA as controversy over Jerusalem Festival exchange grows
Nobel laureate J M Coetzee backs NWASA amid growing controversy over Gaza, cultural boycotts and the Jerusalem Festival exchange.
The meaning of the Phala Phala Concourt Decision
By Judge John Murphy After the recent judgment of the Constitutional Court concerning the Phala-Phala matter there are once again calls in the media for President Ramaphosa to resign from office. I sense a confusion regarding the judgement and thought it may be...
