Time to stop #CitizenAbuse

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The mainstream media and many financial institution analysts are driving the line that last week’s budget was enlightened and littered with efforts to reduce the

Are all those beaches shrinking and islands drowning?

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Back in 1989 Noel Brown, director of the New York office of the United Nations (UN) Environment Programme, said that entire nations could be wiped

Solutions require situational awareness 

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Criticism of the ANC was quite restrained until about five years ago when evidence gushed forth of rampant patronage.  Yet subsequent electoral loyalty seemed to

A contemptible insult

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In the very week in which the Institute of Race Relations delivered a memorandum to the Presidency warning the government about the costs of abusing

White Lives Don’t Matter!

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“White Lives Don’t Matter!” The eNCA television station made this clear in a disgraceful racist incident broadcast live to the nation last month. An eNCA

Class inequality a growing concern in SA

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Class and geography are often ignored as reasons for inequality in South Africa; it is often claimed that racism is often claimed to be the

Don’t defund the police, restructure the police!

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In the aftermath of George Floyd’s murder at the hands of Derek Chauvin and the subsequent protests around it, especially those with calls to defund

Thoughts from a grim alternative reality

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Amerika was one of the more evocative television events of the later 1980s. Originally broadcast over seven nights in 1987, it depicted life in the

Daily Maverick hit-piece on Panda is embarrassingly poor

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Weaving a web of supposed connections of which any conspiracy theorist would be proud, Nafeez Ahmed and Rebecca Davis tried to paint anti-lockdown lobby group

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This Week in History recalls memorable and decisive events and personalities of the past. 28th February 1993 – The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF)