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ASHRAF PATEL writes that Martin Luther King Day should be a time for critical reflection on the dire state of African Americans. Each year, on January17, Martin Luther King Day is celebrated as a national holiday in the United States to commemorate the great civil rights leader...

DR FARID ESACK writes that the challenge for those who promote a scientific approach to the eradication of COVID-19 is to recognise and address the larger moral and ethical social horizons of those who do not respond scientifically. WHILE Muslims often make very eager combatants in local...

'Professor Fataar’s argument of gentle persuasion is, in my humble view, unconvincing, to the extent that it assumes as a self-evident truth that the vaccines across the entire spectrum of COVID-19 vaccines are lifesavers, without any serious side effects', writes ADVOCATE ANWAR ALBERTUS. WHILE it was not...

With vaccine hesitancy in the Muslim community a challenge, PROFESSOR ASLAM FATAAR addresses the question about the closure of mosques to the unvaccinated. In this article, I address the question of mosque access in the context of an ongoing viral pandemic. The decision about limiting mosque access...

EBRAHIM MPHUTLANE WA BOFELO does a comparative analysis of the presidencies of Mandela, Mbeki, Zuma and Ramaphosa, arguing why they could not risk even the slightest possibility of a revolutionary shift to the left. Introduction HOW a society works is informed by a dynamic relationship between ideology,...

I can never watch a Dilip Kumar film or think about Dilip Kumar without also thinking about my father, writes GAIROONISA PALEKER. DILIP Kumar, who was the cinematic avatar of Yousuf Khan, died on July 7, 2021, at the age of 98. He was arguably the brightest,...

BRETT HERRON writes that ‘nobody with even a moderately developed sense of compassion and justice can fail to be moved by the scenes of injustice in Palestine.’ IT has become a global cliché to describe Israel as an apartheid state, but when we level this charge from...

AT first, it may sound incredibly bizarre to suggest that the coronavirus lockdowns many countries had put in place a just over a year ago could be used as the foundation for a renaissance of the 21st century. Take a closer look and see how it may...

DURING a political science lecture in early April, UCT’s Dr Lwazi Lushaba said that “Hitler committed no crime. All Hitler did was to do to white people what white people had normally reserved for black people”. This upset some students at the lecture. It caused a furore...

JASMINE KHAN and NAJMUNESA SOLOMON challenge the wide scope given to the definition of misogyny by Mahmood Sanglay in an article published on this website last week. WHEN we do anything to offend someone, or commit a blatant sin, we first ask the person/s that we injured...