Marika Sboros
Marika Sboros is a freelance journalist, editor and published author of non-fiction books, who divides her time between SA and the UK. She started her career as a hard-news reporter on the Rand Daily Mail. Sboros has written full-time on health, medicine and lifestyle for The Star and Business Day. She has a special interest in politics and religion. Follow Sboros on X @MarikaSboros, or, on Substack, at marikasboros.substack.com
Articles By This Author
UCT: the good, the bad and … the lawyers
In the classic Western movie, The Good, The Bad and the Ugly, three rugged cowboys circle a grave in which a fortune is buried. The tension
Pillay, peace and the prize
Navanethem “Navi” Pillay was at a conference in Courtroom 600 of Nuremberg’s Palace of Justice when it was announced that she had won the 2026
UCT’s Ombud crisis exposes fatal design flaws in governance
Ask most people what an Ombud does at a university, and you’ll get a blank stare. Yet it can be one of an institution’s most
The silence that condemns us all
There are moments when language fails, when violence outstrips the vocabulary available to describe it.
Seidman’s expulsion: the comedy, and the darker side
South Africa’s expulsion of Israel’s Chargé D’Affaires is looking like fabulous fodder for comedians. It is also a prime example of the ANC government’s hypocrisy
The Bondi Beach lesson: all must confront extremist ideologues
There is a good reason why anti-Zionism feels so righteous to those who preach it, and feels so viscerally familiar to Jews forced to face
Peeling back the curtain
Is a much-beloved, global, South African charity another cog in the wheel of Iran’s “slow-boil” international strategy to destroy Israel through its use of proxies?
Mandla Mandela and the anti-Israel lobby*
The first anniversary of the most costly violence against Jews in a single day since the Holocaust – the October 7 2023 terrorist attack in
Yet again, Israel scapegoated as “hidden hand” in SA’s “afrophobia” outbreak
So, Israel, the world’s most overworked, overused and abused scapegoat, is the “hidden hand” behind South Africa’s latest xenophobia crisis?