The argument about war and justice is still a political and moral issue.
Decisionmakers and victims alike have to examine the moral issues of warfare and at the same time, with the growing awareness of religion, pay attention to the status of reli...
I am almost tempted to open this piece with a disclaimer stating that the views expressed here are not in any way a personal attack on the main character, but then again based on my main character's evident thrill from personally attacking people, wh...
By Vasti Roodt
Another debate is upon us. Following the uproar over her snubbing of a risque art exhibition, Arts and Culture minister Lulu Xingwana has called upon South Africans to debate the line between art and pornography.
We will have ...
It was a daring mission; unprecedented in its audacity and ferocity. At 04.37am, the precision missiles were launched from an unpiloted aircraft flying somewhere over the Ozurenje valley. They swiftly streaked through the fading darkness at almost tw...
Jacob Zuma has never been a man who aroused any pride in me as a citizen of this country; nor has he inspired much confidence in me to impose the trust of leadership on his shoulders. There are those who without a degree of hesitation would give an a...
I spent election day driving around KwaZulu-Natal visiting polling stations both in Durban and Zululand. I started early and headed north to Ulundi and then onwards to Nongoma before making my way back to Durban stopping at various polling stations a...
The sight must have been amusing and alarming: a tall, young Chinese man doing a flying kung fu kick and bouncing off my back. He then dashed off and I was rather relieved. The Chinese government takes a dim view of public scuffles; we could well hav...
“My father and them trekked with a donkey cart”, Floors explained. “It was a long distance to cover in that way and some families had it very hard. Somebody's wife went into labour and they stopped at a farm. But the farmer wanted to know nothi...
Isn't it a paradox that Africa, a continent heavily mired in "famine", regularly surpasses global agricultural exports, according to WTO, and other trade statistics?
Or that the 13 African countries superceding agricultural growth in the past five...
The 11 000-page Commodity Futures Modernisation Act was dumped on Congress just days before Christmas break on December 21 2000. Those who read it would have foreseen years in advance the black hole on page 262, forbidding government from regula...
