OPINION

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...

THE new finance minister’s budget speech on February 20 comes in the midst of an unprecedented economic crisis in the South African economy. Crises like these are typically attributed, inter alia, to economic policies and global market conditions. However, in our case the inescapable truth is that...

ELECTIONS shape the future of any democracy. It is the beginning for every citizen to have his or her say in that future.   Therefore, registering to vote is important. You cannot vote if you have not registered as a voter. This cold fact is founded on...

AN agent in the meat processing industry recently remarked, ‘The listeriosis outbreak is the death of the penny polony.’ Any scandal involving food on this scale invariably has political and economic consequences. Among the concerns is the plummeting share price of the corporation that owns the errant...

THE current discourse around national developments is unprecedented. These developments warrant serious and careful consideration because the present crisis is more than political, social and economic. It is also an intellectual crisis. There is a general failure to engage in discourse with hope and a vision that...

FASTING implies a social responsibility, and Ramadaan this year comes at a time of national crisis following deepening social discontent in our country. Our devotions of sacrifice, self-restraint and compassion for the poor are contextualised by a range of glaring social and political issues. Our spiritual growth,...