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By Suntosh Pillay James Cameron was named 2009's best director for his movie Avatar at the recent Golden Globe Awards. The other nominations that had already opened on local screens were Inglourious Basterds and Invictus. Though each of these movi...
David J Smith
Why is it that gay people are so hated on this continent? What makes people in Africa want to murder, imprison or beat up on them? And before you start telling me it is a tribal thing, a black thing or a whatever thing, I can tell you a lot of white ...
Llewellyn Kriel
Maybe rising to the challenge would be a good start. Sociologists agree that few facets of the human experience so effectively transcend divisions to unite people as being able to communicate with each other effectively. To do this, a shared "lang...
Rod MacKenzie
The case of Brandon Huntley -- in terms of the divergent reactions of South Africans to his attempts to get Canadian refugee status, not so much what he did -- has become one emblem of the current South African collective consciousness and subconscio...
Michael Trapido
When white South African Brandon Huntley was granted asylum in Canada after he claimed he was the victim of racist violence, many of us -- Richmark Sentinel included -- went pear-shaped and labelled the board who had approved it a bunch of morons who...
David Saks
Although little reported on in our press, a firestorm of controversy has been unleashed by the result of a Swiss referendum at the end of last month banning the construction of new minarets -- the distinctive tall spires attached to Islamic mosques -...
Michael Francis
The words custom, culture and tradition are often invoked to shut down debate and discussion instead of used as a meaningful way of explaining a practice, belief or to understand historical events or legacies. The furore surrounding the feast and cel...
William Saunderson-Meyer
The gates are agape for gangsters, pimps, washerwomen and gardeners. But teachers, nuclear physicists, nurses and engineers are shunned. Those who deserve to be barred are freely allowed to enter South Africa, while those whom we should embrace fi...
Avishkar Govender
My peace was interrupted this morning by the xenophobia being peddled by some twit in a suit on television. Now while the SABC is free to choose whom they invite to appear as experts on any particular matter, the fact is that getting a dude who claim...
David Saks
Why is that that Parktown prawns (a misnomer I'll come back to) elicit so intense a degree of revulsion? True, they are appalling ugly. In addition, their tendency to jump when startled -- frequently straight at you -- is, to say the least, disconcer...



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