OPINION

“The law may not be able to make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me” – Martin Luther King, Jr. The rise of lynchings in the name of cow vigilantism was challenged in the Supreme Court in the case of Tushar Gandhi v. Union of India before a bench of Chief Justice...

Date: 29 May 2018 To:  Professor Njabulo Ndebele Chairman of the Board Nelson Mandlea Foundation   Dear Professor Ndebele, OPEN LETTER REQUESTING THE NELSON MANDELA FOUNDATION TO RECALL THE INVITATION TO  BARACK OBAMA TO DELIVER THE 16th NELSON MANDELA LECTURE The Palestine...

House of Ummah Communication 112: CHANGE IS POSSIBLE! TIME TO PLAN AND ACHIEVE IN THE NAME OF ALLAH, THE MOST GRACIOUS, THE MOST MERCIFUL ___ COMMUNICATION  112 HOUSE OF UMMAH   THE POWER OF AN IDEA Change starts with an idea and occurs after the effort pushed into realising...

[Prefatory Note: There has been lots of discussion prompted by the release of a report jointly authored with Prof. Virginia Tilley, a study commissioned by the UN Economic and Social Commission for West Asia (ESCWA), and given by us the title, “Israeli Practices towards the...

Apartheid and the Future of Israel/Palestine by Richard Falk   [Prefatory Note: There has been lots of discussion prompted by the release of a report jointly authored with Prof. Virginia Tilley, a study commissioned by the UN Economic and Social Commission for West Asia...

Israeli border police arresting African asylum seekers during an arrest sweep in south Tel Aviv. (Photo: Keren Manor, Activestills.org/file)   The Twittersphere went into overdrive immediately after the cancellation of the controversial African-Israeli summit. “When you are on an...

 Statistics SA released figures that show more than 50% of South Africans, i.e. 30 million people have been condemned to poverty with about 13 million living in extreme poverty. The slide towards poverty is illustrated by an apocryphal story of a man standing beside a river....

KASHMIR: No Reason to Celebrate India’s Independence. Palestinians are being killed by the militarized terrorist of Zionist Israel as well as the illegal Egyptian government terrorists in their hundreds. Palestinian properties and land worth billions of dollars are confiscated...

  Change: Organising Tomorrow, Today by Jay Naidoo, Penguin Books, 2017, 277 pages, R206.00, ISBN 978 1 77609 180 5 (Print) _______________________________________________________________________________ In this interesting book, Jay Naidoo reflects on his historical journey...