RODNEY Plett's statement today settles what happened outside a Norwood synagogue on Yom Kippur: he swore at Abdur Rahamaan Aziz and made remarks invoking Israel and Muslims that he now calls "hurtful and wrong." That much, the footage and statement agree on. What's being built on top of that admi...

LAST week a weighty tome released by the controversial UN Human Rights Council arrived on my desk. The council you may recall, is controversial for its appointment of Ali Bahreini, Ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Iran to chair its 2023 social forum. The report: "Legal analysis of the conduc...

The press are lying to us about farm murders

IN MANY respects Oscar van Heerden represents all that is wrong inside South African academia. Its de-emphasis of evidence-based research in favour of pure scholasticism. The rote repetition of other's opinions, in an uncritical process which edifies 'woke logic' and the writings of the country's...