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My experience with Israeli security forces
Hearing Democratic Alliance MP Yusuf Cassim speak of his experiences of racial profiling at the hands of Israeli security forces reminded AAISHA DADI PATEL...
The DA, a bearded MP and a trip to Israel
The Israeli embassy in South Africa wrote to airport officials at Ben-Gurion International Airport in Tel Aviv, Israel earlier this month asking them to...
Why South African Muslims won’t join Isil en masse
South Africa woke up on Monday to a Daily Maverick piece about the first Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil) recruit from...
The Weekly Dissident: Don’t shoot me here, shoot me there (Dunoon is us)
Today in the Weekly Dissident, guest writer KHAYA MASEKO reflects on the miserable life of the wretched of Mzansi.
This writer is in Dunoon...
DUT joins chorus of colleges at loggerheads with students over financial aid
Tensions are simmering at the Durban University of Technology (DUT) with ongoing student protests over financial aid. QINISO MBILI was on the ground to...
#OpenToSyria: Displaced faces of the civil war
Four years of civil war in Syria have left more than 190,000 people dead, while millions have had to flee their homes for safety.
International...
The Weekly Dissident: Myesha Jenkins, socialist, feminist, internationalist “race” woman
In the Weekly Dissident today, Mphutlane wa Bofelo converses with feminist activist and poet, Myesha Jenkins.
MwB: I understand that you only started writing upon...
Woolworths stocks Palestinian dates, angers activists
You might find a surprising addition on the shelves at South African retail giant Woolworths: dates the company says are imported from Palestine. Given...
The Paris attacks were not about freedom of expression
I am a writer, a journalist, even a satirist sometimes. I understand the value of freedom. And I also understand that part of our...
Brutal killing of cartoonists will solve Middle East problem – expert
The heinous attack on a Paris-based satirical magazine and the murder of its cartoonists will likely put an end to the continuing cycle of...
Palestinian leader killed for trying to plant olive trees
A Palestinian minister has been killed after suffering a beating at the hands of Israeli forces during a protest in the West Bank, in...
Lesego Rampolokeng, Vagabond Word-Man
This week MPHUTLANE WA BOFELO speaks to the prolific and irrepressible all-round writer, Lesego Rampolokeng, popularly known as Papa Ramps or Bavino Bachana.
MwB: Who is Lesego Rampolokeng? What...
“Boycotting Woolworths is doing more harm than good†– Steven Friedman
The Boycott Divestment and Sanctions campaign South Africa’s (BDS-SA's) actions are doing more harm than good for Palestine. This is according to Professor Steven...
“I did not invest in Woolworths to support Israel”
An open letter to Woolworths concerning its refusal to boycott Israeli goods, penned by an investor in Woolworths, is gaining traction online.
"As an investor...
Cosas to go the whole hog with Woolies “pigs campaign”
Cosas has expressed its intention to continue with its controversial "pigs campaign" which involves placing severed pigs heads in the kosher and halal sections...
Pigs apologise for walking into ‘wrong section’ of Woolies
Some of the pigs involved in the debacle at Woolies have spoken out about their role in the unhygienic practise of parking their heads...
Pigs’ heads in Woolies: Cosas’s piss-poor shock tactics
* This story has been updated.
Are you ready for your Friday facepalm? The ANC-affiliated Congress of South African Students (Cosas) has decided that a...
Life in Gaza after the ceasefire
“I am dying to live,†he said when told that leaving Gaza illegally aboard a boat headed for Europe could cost him his life.
Did...
Open Mosque: “The real problem is not closed mosques, it is closed mindsâ€
Muslim gender activists have for years pushed for women to be included in the main section of the mosque, without barriers and without stigma....
Student takes Jewish day school to Human Rights Commission
Just as the controversy over King David Victory Park High School (KDVP) student Joshua Broomberg started to die down, the Times has reported that another student at...
