I meet Huwaida Arraf at the Palestinian Struggle and Human Spirit Film Festival held in the working class district of Athlone in Cape Town. It's a chilly evening but I request we move our conversation outside. The fake Israeli soldiers harassing patr...
Sorry to let the side down chaps, but I think Movember is a silly idea. No, seriously ous. Of all the things to do in order to raise awareness, why choose to grow a moustache?
To the woefully uninformed, Movember is a movement that started in Aust...
I would like to offer my rule for good sex for life. But, first I would like to ask the hard question: why does sex play such a dominant role in South Africa -- more than anywhere else I believe -- and, more specifically, in our HIV/Aids discourse? (...
I have had a few cathartic experiences living in this beautiful country of ours. One of them was in 1989 sitting in a room full of fellow students debating issues which to us at the time were very important for our organisation, AIESEC. We were gathe...
I think it is most appropriate that Zaps is removing the shower head from the president's cranium, with the caveat that the removal may only be temporary, depending on performance. And as Zapiro (bless his satirical name) avows, it is not due to poli...
Sarah Britten made a very astute observation on where the Zapiro (bless his satirical name) cartoon may be taking us all. Zuma may very well be re-written as a victim – for the nonce. Dream on girl – with this kind of writing ye may very well...
Philanthropy has spearheaded major movements globally including the women’s movement, the environmental movement, the hospice movement and now the fight against Aids. In the recent xenophobic attacks in South Africa, it was not government or busin...
Please accept my apologies for my lack of enthusiasm for activism this year. I am worn out, and have neither the energy nor the inclination to find out exactly what activism activities are happening in my part of the world. I also have no desire to w...
