Sara Gon

President Cyril Ramaphosa, according to recent surveys, enjoys a 67% approval rating at this time of Covid-19. Ramaphosa as leader is an illusion. This illusion

There’s nothing like a pandemic to remind us of how distasteful black economic empowerment (BEE) as formulated by the African National Congress (ANC) really is.

‘No system of mass surveillance has existed in any society that we know of to this point that has not been abused’ – Edward Snowden

There is no racism so unabashedly and so publicly expressed, nor so graphic and varied, as anti-Semitism. Consider the following:             ‘Finally! Science has discovered

I don’t like Greta Thunberg. Unlike the adults who gave her a standing ovation at the United Nations after she had berated them for ruining

We at the Institute of Race Relations (IRR) have written often about the African National Congress’s inability to shake off the ‘cult’ of socialism, notwithstanding

Shortly before his resignation, former Johannesburg mayor Herman Mashaba spoke very dismissively of a resident complaining about grass verges not being cut.  Mr Mashaba’s implication

Former president FW de Klerk’s now infamous opinion that he did not believe apartheid was a crime against humanity produced the anticipated tsunami of opprobrium. 

It’s taken about two years for the captains of industry to recognise something that less-powerful and less-connected people have known for a good while –

On Monday 27 January 1945, the Russian Army liberated Auschwitz. What the soldiers found was unimaginably horrific, a factory designed for the annihilation of ordinary